dead-end vs pass on

dead-end

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

pass on

verb
  • To die. 

  • To convey or communicate. 

  • To go forward. 

  • To transfer (something) to someone, especially by handing or bequeathing it to the next person in a series. 

  • To skip or decline. 

How often have the words dead-end and pass on occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )