pass over

[pass over] or [pass by] {v.}

To give no attention to; not notice; ignore,

* /I can pass over the disorderliness of the troops, but their disobedience is serious./

* /In choosing men to be given a salary raise, the foreman passed Mr. Hart by./

* /She was unattractive, the kind of a girl that everybody would pass by./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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