"pass the bottle of smoke" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: passes the bottle of smoke [present, singular, third-person], passing the bottle of smoke [participle, present], passed the bottle of smoke [participle, past], passed the bottle of smoke [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pass the bottle of smoke (third-person singular simple present passes the bottle of smoke, present participle passing the bottle of smoke, simple past and past participle passed the bottle of smoke)
  1. (rare) To acquiesce in some falsehood; to make pretence. Tags: rare Related terms: blow smoke, smoke blower
    Sense id: en-pass_the_bottle_of_smoke-en-verb-sIm7DbBK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:",
          "text": "To help myself in my turn, as the man before me helps himself in his, and pass the bottle of smoke. To keep up the pretence as to labour, and study, and patience, and being devoted to my art, and giving up many solitary days to it, and abandoning many pleasures for it, and living in it, and all the rest of it—in short, to pass the bottle of smoke, according to rule.",
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        "(rare) To acquiesce in some falsehood; to make pretence."
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