passed the mantle

Verb

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

1. To transfer authority to the next in line; pass the torch.
   • In contrast, there are a few noteworthy examples of intentional multigenerational projects, in which the senior ethnographers pass the mantle, as it were, to new researchers who then take responsibility to sustain the project into the future.2002, Robert V. Kemper, Anya Peterson Royce, Chronicling Cultures: Long-term Field Research in Anthropology