pass by on the other side

(British & Australian)

to ignore a person who needs help

Usage notes: This phrase comes from a story in the Bible in which two people ignore an injured person and walk past him without offering him any help.

We cannot just pass by on the other side when we know people are suffering like this.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cayetano	kie-e-TAH-no	Spanish
Lysistrata	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Theophilos	-	Ancient Greek
Eugen	OI-gen (German)	German, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian
Friedman	['fri:dmən]
Abhishek	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil