pass on
verb1
To go forward.
- Sir Humphrey: There comes a time when one has to accept what fate has in store. When one passes on (pun). / Jim Hacker: (Shocked) Passes on?1980 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Party Games (Yes Minister)”, in Yes Minister, spoken by Humphrey Appleby, w:Jim Hacker (Nigel Hawthorne, w:Paul Eddington):
2
To convey or communicate.
- Can you pass on the information next time you see him?
- Does he know what I do? / And you'll pass this on, won't you? / And if I ask him once what would he say? / Is he willing? / Can he play?2003, “Pass This On”, in Deep Cuts, performed by The Knife:
3
To transfer (something) to someone, especially by handing or bequeathing it to the next person in a series.
4
To skip or decline.
- I'll pass on dessert, thanks.
5
Euphemistic, Idiomatic To die.
- His uncle passed on last year.
- A very fine woman, Martha’s mother. She passed on—let’s see—sixteen months ago, next June. No, fifteen months ago. […] She was a very fine old lady, and I was glad to do what I could.1953, Jim Thompson, “Allen Talbert”, in The Criminal, Berkeley, Calif.: Black Lizard Books, published 1986, →ISBN, page 5:
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- Sir Humphrey: There comes a time when one has to accept what fate has in store. When one passes on (pun). / Jim Hacker: (Shocked) Passes on?1980 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “Party Games (Yes Minister)”, in Yes Minister, spoken by Humphrey Appleby, w:Jim Hacker (Nigel Hawthorne, w:Paul Eddington):