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Pass on

verb

Place into the hands or custody of. Synonyms: give, hand, pass, reach, turn over. "Turn the files over to me, please" , "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"

Transmit (knowledge or skills). Synonyms: give, impart, leave. "Leave your name and address here" , "Impart a new skill to the students"

Move forward, also in the metaphorical sense. Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, progress.

Give to or transfer possession of.

Refer to another person for decision or judgment. Synonyms: relegate, submit.

Cause be distributed. Synonyms: circulate, distribute, pass around.

Transmit information. Synonyms: communicate, pass, pass along, put across. "Pass along the good news"

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"Pass on" Quotes from Famous Books

... the woman of any other nation does, and I believe there is no crime she would not commit in its behalf. But if she saw a scorpion walking about in the fields, she would not kill it as we should. She would step aside and pass on. 'Poor beast!' she would say, 'why should I hurt it? It never ...

— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding

... her mistress so grossly insulted, but the man-servant rushed at the ringleader and knocked him down. The half-drunk murderers were eager to kill the Chamberts at once, plunder the house, set light to it, and pass on; but as they stepped forward to kill the old lady her son fired his gun ...

— Noble Deeds of the World's Heroines • Henry Charles Moore

... experience how certain days in one's life have a power of standing out in the memory, even in a tract of pleasant days, all lit by a particular brightness of joy. One does not always know at the time that the day is going to be so crowned; but the weeks pass on, and the one little space of sunlight, between dawn ...

— At Large • Arthur Christopher Benson

... he moved about, and clomb Ev'n to the highest he could climb, and saw, Straining his eyes beneath an arch of hand, Or thought he saw, the speck that bare the King, Down that long water opening on the deep Somewhere far off, pass on and on, and go From less to less and vanish into light. And the new sun ...

— Myths and Legends of All Nations • Various

... "Pass on, friends," was the grinning reply. That rascal of a sentry had caught us unawares, lost in the afterglow, and he was tickled over having startled ...

— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger

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