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passes the bottle of smoke

passes the bottle of smoke is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

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Passes the bottle of smoke is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pass the bottle of smoke.

Words near passes the bottle of smoke in the dictionary

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