Give
Give verb - To make a present of.
Pass up
Pass up verb - To show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to.
Both terms in one sentence
- May, Brock and Drew have intercepted the haywire robots, have found the core robot, have gotten a pass up to it to give the main control room a chance to reset them... only to realize that they never told anyone in the control room to do anything.
Source: Fan Fic / Ashes of the Past -
This acquired for the United States the western half of the Mississippi River watershed, doubling the size of the country.note Some say that the Constitution didn't give the President the power to make such a deal, and that Jefferson himself knew that... but it was just too good to pass up.
Source: Expanded States of America
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