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sell the pass en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.
   • In fact the officials in the Richmond Asylum had pre-empted Sinn Féin. They managed to sell the pass without losing their jobs in the process, unlike Henry Campbell or John Flood. 2012, Pádraig Yeates, A City in Turmoil:
   • A respectable divine like Samual Torshell sold the pass when he wrote in 1645 that there was no difference between men and women in the state of grace. 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:

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Synonyms

traitorize · quisle · cross out · stab in the back · let down · cross up · betray · renegade · play someone false · sell the pass · sell out · double-cross · knife · sell down the river · turncoat · sell out · do the dirty on · false · do someone dirty · swike · go back on · assfuck · cop out · sell down the river · sell · sell down · burn · sell