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"The pass" is a mountain crossing, so narrow that they's horses done hafta cross it in single file. "Them" (usually rendered as "'em") would be the Bad Guys. What is never made clear is how the Good Guys have a way to get to the pass before the Bad Guys do. However, clearly, once they get to the pass, the Bad Guys could be encircled and trapped by the Good Guys. No oater is complete without a climactic race to "the pass," which the Good Guys win. They then arrest the Bad Guys and read them their Miranda rights. Finally, everyone draws their sixguns at the same time, all the Bad Guys are killed, none of the Good Guys is even nicked, and the ACLU never files a protest.

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rdfs:label	Head them off at the pass
rdfs:comment	"The pass" is a mountain crossing, so narrow that they's horses done hafta cross it in single file. "Them" (usually rendered as "'em") would be the Bad Guys. What is never made clear is how the Good Guys have a way to get to the pass before the Bad Guys do. However, clearly, once they get to the pass, the Bad Guys could be encircled and trapped by the Good Guys. No oater is complete without a climactic race to "the pass," which the Good Guys win. They then arrest the Bad Guys and read them their Miranda rights. Finally, everyone draws their sixguns at the same time, all the Bad Guys are killed, none of the Good Guys is even nicked, and the ACLU never files a protest.
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abstract	"The pass" is a mountain crossing, so narrow that they's horses done hafta cross it in single file. "Them" (usually rendered as "'em") would be the Bad Guys. What is never made clear is how the Good Guys have a way to get to the pass before the Bad Guys do. However, clearly, once they get to the pass, the Bad Guys could be encircled and trapped by the Good Guys. No oater is complete without a climactic race to "the pass," which the Good Guys win. They then arrest the Bad Guys and read them their Miranda rights. Finally, everyone draws their sixguns at the same time, all the Bad Guys are killed, none of the Good Guys is even nicked, and the ACLU never files a protest. Heading them off at the pass is a key in the history of Canada, partly because Canadians dote on movies about the American West, and partly because it is a uniquely Canadian strategy of getting to "the pass" first, not to put Bad Guys in custody or shoot them up, but to get completely across "the pass" before them and avoid conflict entirely. "Head 'em off at the pass" is also a key strategy in soccer, in which a forward receives a pass with his forehead, with the resulting "header" scoring a goal. It was another key event in Canadian history when this strategy was applied in hockey.

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