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pass off as
pass something off as something
also pass off something as something to pretend that something is different from what it really is Mother would never try to pass off supermarket cookies as homemade, would she? The senator passed his impolite language off as “the way we talk where I come from.”
pass yourself off as somebody
to pretend that you are someone else Maurice is trying to pass himself off as a journalist to get admitted to the press conference.