PASS BY THE BOARD


Meaning of PASS BY THE BOARD in English

See: GO BY THE BOARD.

{v. phr.} To go away or disappear forever, be forgotten or not used. * /Tom had several chances to go to college, but he let them go by the board./ * /Grandfather said he was too old to go to the beach. "Those days have passed by the board," he said./ Compare: DOWN THE DRAIN.

Dictionary of English idioms .      Словарь английских идиом.