selling the pass

Verb

sell the pass (third-person singular simple present sells the pass, present participle selling the pass, simple past and past participle sold the pass)

1. (idiomatic) To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   sell, sell down the river, sell out, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out, cross out, cross up, double-cross