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passed the bottle of smoke

passed the bottle of smoke is the simple past and past participle of pass the bottle of smoke.

Meaning of pass the bottle of smoke

Verb

pass the bottle of smoke (third-person singular simple present passes the bottle of smoke, present participle passing the bottle of smoke, simple past and past participle passed the bottle of smoke)

  1. (idiomatic, rare) To acquiesce in some falsehood; to make pretence.
    • To help myself in my turn, as the man before me helps himself in his, and pass the bottle of smoke. To keep up the pretence as to labour, and study, and patience, and being devoted to my art, and giving up many solitary days to it, and abandoning many pleasures for it, and living in it, and all the...1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC

Questions about passed the bottle of smoke

What is passed the bottle of smoke the simple past and past participle of?
Passed the bottle of smoke is the simple past and past participle of pass the bottle of smoke.

Words near passed the bottle of smoke in the dictionary

  1. passed round
  2. passed round the hat
  3. passed sentence
  4. passed the bar
  5. passed the baton
  6. passed the bottle of smoke
  7. passed the buck
  8. passed the hat
  9. passed the mantle
  10. passed the phone
  11. passed the pikes

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