pass sth off as sth
— phrasal verb with pass uk/pɑːs/us/pæs/verb
to pretend that something is a particular thing when it is not:
The dealer was trying to pass off fakes as valuable antiques.
It's hard to believe anyone would try to pass this nonsense off as literature.
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Fraud & corruption
- baksheesh
- blackmail
- buy sb off
- cook
- cook the books idiom
- corrupt
- corruption
- fraudulent accounting
- front for sth
- game-fixing
- get at sb
- graft
- impersonate
- imposture
- Ponzi scheme
- rort
- shell
- siphon sth off
- suborn
- swindle
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Faking & pretending