Meaning of hall pass | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A permit to be out of class during school hours.
   US
2. An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.
   broadly, informal

Examples

“To freely move around the school when you should be in class requires an official hall pass. Those are guarded like government-issued official travel documents. Most teachers don't just hand them out to anybody who asks.”

“The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do.”

“So these wives give them a "hall pass": for one week only, they get a bachelor holiday from married life, no questions asked.”

“Shane explains: “I’ve got a hall pass to sleep with other women but that wasn’t the original intention.”

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