"sell the pass" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sells the pass",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling the pass",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold the pass",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold the pass",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "sell<,,sold> the pass"
      },
      "expansion": "sell the pass (third-person singular simple present sells the pass, present participle selling the pass, simple past and past participle sold the pass)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish English",
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        },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Pádraig Yeates, A City in Turmoil:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause."
      ],
      "id": "en-sell_the_pass-en-verb-I-ahMa65",
      "links": [
        [
          "betray",
          "betray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, originally Ireland) To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "sell the pass"
}

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    {
      "form": "sells the pass",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "selling the pass",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold the pass",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sold the pass",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sell<,,sold> the pass"
      },
      "expansion": "sell the pass (third-person singular simple present sells the pass, present participle selling the pass, simple past and past participle sold the pass)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Irish English",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Pádraig Yeates, A City in Turmoil:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "betray",
          "betray"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, originally Ireland) To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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