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单词 hall pass
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Definition of hall pass in English:

hall pass

noun
US
  • 1A piece of paper or other token authorizing a student to be outside a particular classroom while class is in session.

    I got my hall pass and started walking to the guidance counselor's office
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's like a junior high principal catching eighth graders without hall passes.
    • For some reason, I got asked for the hall pass a lot that day.
    • He was normally making sure the hall monitors weren't passing out fake hall passes at that time of the day.
    • As always, Wanda snuck to the desk and got the hall pass.
    • I felt her presence slide by me to pick up the bathroom hall pass perched on the ledge of the whiteboard.
    1. 1.1informal Permission to break a rule or code of conduct.
      it's time we quit giving celebrities a hall pass for hurling slurs when they should know better
      will Congress get a hall pass and continue to shirk their responsibilities?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He seems to have had a hall pass from federal authorities, which embittered other foreign flight trainers not similarly well-connected.
      • He talks about how we're losing our friends, and we can't act alone, how we must get a hall pass from the UN, and so on.
      • Few players in the league are tougher than him, but that doesn't mean he should get a hall pass when going to the rim.
      • Rather like Miss Pittypat Hamilton in Gone with the Wind, their unmarried status conveyed upon them a kind of perpetual hall pass to helplessness.
      • One thing they have, though, they have kind of a hall pass from Wall Street.
 
 

Definition of hall pass in US English:

hall pass

noun
US
  • 1A piece of paper or other token authorizing a student to be outside a particular classroom while class is in session.

    I got my hall pass and started walking to the guidance counselor's office
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For some reason, I got asked for the hall pass a lot that day.
    • As always, Wanda snuck to the desk and got the hall pass.
    • It's like a junior high principal catching eighth graders without hall passes.
    • I felt her presence slide by me to pick up the bathroom hall pass perched on the ledge of the whiteboard.
    • He was normally making sure the hall monitors weren't passing out fake hall passes at that time of the day.
    1. 1.1informal Permission to break a rule or code of conduct.
      it's time we quit giving celebrities a hall pass for hurling slurs when they should know better
      will Congress get a hall pass and continue to shirk their responsibilities?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He talks about how we're losing our friends, and we can't act alone, how we must get a hall pass from the UN, and so on.
      • Rather like Miss Pittypat Hamilton in Gone with the Wind, their unmarried status conveyed upon them a kind of perpetual hall pass to helplessness.
      • One thing they have, though, they have kind of a hall pass from Wall Street.
      • He seems to have had a hall pass from federal authorities, which embittered other foreign flight trainers not similarly well-connected.
      • Few players in the league are tougher than him, but that doesn't mean he should get a hall pass when going to the rim.
 
 
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