English Dictionary

hall pass

名詞

アメリカ英語 広義 くだけた表現

(US) A permit to be out of class during school hours. / (by extension, informal) An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.

日本語の意味

（アメリカの学校制度において）授業中に教室外へ出るための許可証 / （拡張的な意味で）交際中の関係において、一時的または条件付きで専属性（一夫一婦制）を緩和する合意

Before leaving for the nurse, Maya asked the teacher for a hall pass.

看護室に行く前に、マヤは先生に廊下の外出許可証を頼んだ。

意味（1）

(US) A permit to be out of class during school hours.

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.

意味（2）

(by extension, informal) An agreement to temporarily or conditionally relax monogamy in a relationship.

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.

hall passes （ plural ）