Meaning of sell the pass | Babel Free

Definitions

To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.

idiomatic

Examples

“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.”

“In fact the officials in the Richmond Asylum had pre-empted Sinn Féin. They managed to sell the pass without losing their jobs in the process, unlike Henry Campbell or John Flood.”

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