- 1past Just drive by. Don't stop. He hurried by without speaking to me. Excuse me, I can't get by. Time goes by so quickly.
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- 2in order to visit someone for a short time I'll come by this evening and pick up the books. Idioms
before long; soon By and by she met an old man with a beard.
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