the.com/bypass
The polite art of getting from A to B without ever touching B's problems.
means A route, channel, or procedure that goes around the usual path or obstacle rather than through it.
from Built from 'by' (near, aside) plus 'pass' (to go), both old and sturdy English/French-Latin stock — 'pass' tracing back to Latin 'passus,' a step. The word surfaces in English for literal roads and pipes skirting a blockage, then by the 20th century leaps into surgery (coronary bypass) and computing (bypassing a circuit), always keeping its core sense: find the clog, go around it.
- traffic term
- 1928 was the first recorded 'road bypass'
- heart surgery
- coronary bypass borrowed the engineering metaphor directly
- security sense
- hackers 'bypass' auth the same way roads bypass towns
- town economics
- bypassed towns often lose business bypassed by design