hall pass

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A permit to be out of class during school hours. US
    — To freely move around the school when you should be in class requires an official hall pass. Those are guarded like government-issued official travel documents. Most teachers don't just hand them out to anybody who asks.
  2. An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship. broadly,informal
    — The story kicks in when a relationship guru (Joy Behar) suggests that the wives give their husbands a week off from marriage — a hall pass — which, after not much anguish, they do.

词形变化

hall passes plural hallpass alternative hall-pass alternative

词源

From hall + pass.
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