pass

pass away

euphemism To die. I'm so sorry to hear that your father passed over the weekend. When I pass away, I don't want an elaborate funeral.
See also: away, pass

pass on

euphemism To die. I'm so sorry to hear that your father passed on over the weekend. When I pass on, I don't want an elaborate funeral.
See also: on, pass
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

pass

1. n. a passing grade or mark on a test. (Compare this with fail.) This is my third pass this semester.
2. in. to decline something; to decline to participate in something. I’ll have to pass. I am not prepared.
3. n. an act of declining something. Can I have a pass on that one? There is nothing I can do.
4. n. a sexual advance or invitation. (Usually with make.) When he made a pass at me, he got a pass right back.
5. tv. to succeed in spending counterfeit money; to succeed in cashing a bad check. He was arrested for passing bad checks.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • a pretty pass
  • all things must pass
  • all things will pass
  • be like ships that pass in the night
  • be ships that pass in the night
  • bring about
  • bring to pass
  • come about
  • come to a pretty pass
  • come to pass
  • come to pass, to
  • come to such a pass
  • cross one's mind
  • cut (one) off at the pass
  • cut off at the pass
  • cut off at the pass, to
  • do not pass go
  • do not pass Go, do not collect $200
  • do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars
  • give (one) a pass
  • give (one) the flick (pass)
  • give (something) a pass
  • give someone the flick
  • Hail Mary pass
  • hard pass
  • head (someone or something) off at the pass
  • head off
  • head off at the pass
  • head someone or something off at the pass
  • hospital pass
  • Khyber Pass
  • let (one) pass by
  • let (something) pass
  • let by
  • let pass
  • let something pass
  • make a pass at
  • make a pass at (one)
  • make a pass at somebody
  • make a pass at someone
  • not pass (one's) lips
  • not pass your lips
  • over head
  • palm off
  • pass
  • pass (one's) expiry date
  • pass (one's) lips
  • pass (one's) sell-by date
  • pass (someone or something) off (as something else)
  • pass (someone or something) off on (someone)
  • pass (someone or something) over
  • pass (something) around
  • pass (something) down (to someone)
  • pass (something) in to (one)
  • pass (something) to (one)
  • pass a bum check
  • pass along
  • pass around
  • pass as
  • pass as (someone or something)
  • pass away
  • pass back
  • pass by
  • pass by on the other side
  • pass current
  • pass down
  • pass for
  • pass for (someone or something)
  • pass for something
  • pass forward
  • pass from
  • pass from (something)
  • pass gas
  • pass go
  • pass in
  • pass in a crowd
  • pass in review
  • pass in your ally
  • pass into
  • pass into (something)
  • pass judgement
  • pass judgment
  • pass judgment (on someone or something)
  • pass lips
  • pass muster
  • pass muster, to
  • pass off
  • pass on
  • pass on (something)
  • pass on the baton
  • pass on to the Great Beyond
  • pass one's lips
  • pass out
  • pass out (cold)
  • pass over
  • pass round
  • pass sentence (on someone or something)
  • pass sentence on
  • pass someone's lips
  • pass the baton
  • pass the buck
  • pass the buck, to
  • pass the clicker
  • pass the hat
  • pass the hat (around)
  • pass the hat round
  • pass the hat round/around
  • pass the hat, to
  • pass the parcel
  • pass the Rubicon
  • pass the smell test
  • pass the time
  • pass the time of day
  • pass the time of day with (someone)
  • pass the time of day, to
  • pass the torch
  • pass the torch to someone
  • pass the/your time
  • pass through
  • pass through mind
  • pass through(one's) mind
  • pass time
  • pass to
  • pass under
  • pass under (something)
  • pass under the yoke
  • pass up
  • pass water
  • pass with flying colors
  • pass with flying colours
  • pass your sell-by date
  • pass-remarkable
  • praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition
  • reach a pretty pass
  • red-face test
  • sell the pass
  • ships that pass in the night
  • shrug off
  • this too shall pass (away)
  • this, too, shall/will pass
  • with flying colors, pass with
References in classic literature
"I believe that you will see the wisdom of permitting me to pass unmolested," I said, "for it would avail you nothing to die uselessly in the rocky bowels of Barsoom merely to protect a hereditary enemy, such as Thurid, Dator of the First Born.
Warlord of Mars
Not two minutes had passed before Prince Vasili with head erect majestically entered the room.
War and Peace
Now, having passed the fire, once more I should be great in the land, and I would become great.
Nada The Lily
Here the Company were quartered in a scattered mountain hamlet, and Alleyne spent the day looking down upon the swarming army which poured with gleam of spears and flaunt of standards through the narrow pass.
The White Company
When three weeks had gone by without the pass list appearing Anne began to feel that she really couldn't stand the strain much longer.
Anne Of Green Gables
From this point the road, running along Humboldt River, passed northward for several miles by its banks; then it turned eastward, and kept by the river until it reached the Humboldt Range, nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada.
Around The World In Eighty Days
They had evidently passed on and now he would return to the street and continue upon his way.
The Chessmen of Mars
Had all that made Van Horn passed like the flame of the splinter?
Jerry of the Islands
As we passed round the donjon, we met the Green Man, the forest-keeper, who did not greet us, but walked by as if we had not existed.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Minute after minute passed unnoted; he had lost his sense of time.
Can Such Things Be
As soon as the cart came opposite the spot the old man rose from his lofty seat, and standing up said in a loud voice, "I am the sage Lirgandeo," and without another word the cart then passed on.
Don Quixote
There appeared to be nobody stirring in that quarter of the town; the windows of the houses were all closely shut; and the streets through which they passed, were noiseless and empty.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
Once or twice, with a queer, screeching sound, a shell, like a little puff of white smoke, passed high over the car and fell somewhere in the grey valley below.
The Kingdom of the Blind
'wondered who the rider could be,' and whether we should meet him coming back, for she was sure he had only passed that morning; and lastly, when we entered the village and saw only a few of its humble inhabitants moving about, she 'wondered why the stupid people couldn't keep in their houses; she was sure she didn't want to see their ugly faces, and dirty, vulgar clothes--it wasn't for that she came to Horton!'
Agnes Grey
My mother's childhood and early life had been passed on the southern shores of England.
The Two Destinies