Verb
pass current (third-person singular simple present passes current, present participle passing current, simple past and past participle passed current)
(dated) Of money, bills, etc.: to be accepted as genuine.
There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. Alexander Hamilton
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. Thomas Wentworth Higginson