Other ideas passed through his mind and were rejected even more quickly.

This idea of families (rather than the family) passed on values from one generation to the next.

The idea that this merger is in any way good for consumers doesn't pass the laugh test.

Even if the ideas cannot pass Congress, they say, the president would gain a campaign issue by pushing for them.

He was a historian whose economic ideas passed through different phases.

The most absurd and ridiculous ideas passed through my head, each more impossible than the other.

Fine idea, but in Albany, getting a bill passed means making a deal.

Only I wouldn't say as how it was suspicious at the time, although the idea passed through my mind.

Proselytic: ideas generally passed to others beyond one's own children.

With this, the idea of death passed, for the time being, out of his mind.