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pretty passes

pretty passes is the plural of pretty pass.

Meaning of pretty pass

Noun

pretty pass (plural pretty passes)

  1. (dated) An unsatisfactory situation.
    • "Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things!"1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter 9, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company...

Questions about pretty passes

What is pretty passes the plural of?
Pretty passes is the plural of pretty pass.

Words near pretty passes in the dictionary

  1. Pretty Good Privacy
  2. pretty horsebreaker
  3. pretty horsebreakers
  4. pretty much
  5. pretty pass
  6. pretty passes
  7. pretty pennies
  8. pretty penny
  9. pretty pictures
  10. Pretty Pine
  11. pretty please

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