Nobility is the epitaph for the noble and ignobility the pass for the ignoble.
Children's toy guns now look so realistic that they can often pass for the real thing.
Though he comes from the north, he speaks the Shanghai dialect well enough to pass for a native of Shanghai.
He pronounces his words like a native, and if it were not for his body language, he could pass for a Latino.
That a piece of paper of no intrinsic value should pass for good money the world over is nothing less than a secular miracle.
Drogba chested down a long pass forward, Frank Lampard and Toure failed to get the ball under full control and it fell nicely for the Ivorian to ram home a low shot from the edge of the area.
“Cunning men pass for wise” (Francis Bacon).
The examination entrance pass for one of our students was never sent.
Anyone who beats the record will win a season pass for four people for 2007 with VIP queue-jumping status.
I found presently, that whether I was a whore or a wife, I was to pass for a whore here.
Firms also get a free pass for the corrupt practices of their subsidiaries, unless it is proved that they ordered or actively connived in them.
Cunning men pass for wise
good enough to pass for the genuine (article, etc.)
With its rolling hills and lush greenery, it could easily pass for paradise-if not for memories of 1994.
Our own South Island has it all: stunning snowy peaks, crystal clear waters, and scenery so striking it can pass for the mythical reaches of Tolkien's Middle Earth.
I know clans whose members greet each other with gingerly handshakes or, in what pass for kisses, with hurried brushes of side jawbones, as if the object were to touch not the lips but the ears.
Do I speak French well enough to pass for a Frenchman?
What a pretty pass for one to come to whose hopes had so recently run so high!
They were off for a drive--she, looking about and noticing fine clothing, the young men voicing those silly pleasantries and weak quips which pass for humour in coy circles.
Please get your boarding pass for Sydney at the transit counter.
When she was four, her mother sent her to live with a black family because her mother feared that young June was too dark to pass for white.
A great man's foolish sayings pass for wise ones.
With his boyish face and slender build, he (David Ho) could more easily pass for a teenager than for a 44-year-old father of three — or, for that matter, for a world-renowned scientist.
I have reserved the boarding pass for you. You may get it with the receipt of excess baggage.
Students who register for these first Program offerings will get an automatic attendee pass for the Collaboration Summit.
He met a friend who told him the peril an old merchant of Syrance was in, and advised him to pass for a merchant of Epidamunum.
The star halfback hauled down the pass for a touchdown.
Do you have a pass for tourists?
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