[Image English] Why does "pass out" mean to lose consciousness? A core image explanation that makes sense in 1 second

Hello!
I'm Kei, and I have a history of failing at rote memorization of English many times.

You often hear pass out in dramas and the like.
It is famous for meaning "to faint," but it is also used when "handing out" school handouts.

It's very mysterious that "fainting" and "handing out handouts" are the same idiom, isn't it?

This time, let's quickly install the true feeling of this phrase with a "core image" that makes sense in an instant and a "quick-read mini skit"!

🧠 Grasp it in 1 second! The core image of pass out

The image of something that was inside a boundary "passing" smoothly "out" to the outside world.
Losing consciousness (fainting): The "consciousness" that was inside you smoothly "passes out" of your body.
Handing out handouts: A stack that was gathered in the teacher's hand (inside) passes out to the students (outside).

🎭 Read in 30 seconds! English brain mini skit

Setting: Living room. A child who can't wait for a snack and a tired mother.

• Child: "Mom! Hand out (pass out) the cookies you bought to everyone!"

• Mom: "Yes, yes, I'll divide them onto plates and pass them out... wait, oh no, suddenly everything is going dark in front of me..."

• Child: "Huh, Mom!? Your face is pale!"

• Mom: "(Staggering...) I worked too hard today, my consciousness is passing out of my body... (thud, faints)"

• Child: "Waaaaah! Before you could pass out the cookies, you passed out yourself!!"

In the English brain:
Whether it's snacks "passing out" from one's hand or a mother's consciousness "passing out" from her brain, for a native speaker, it's exactly the same feeling of "pass out".

💬 Realistic daily scenes

If you have this image of "smoothly passing out to the outside," you will understand lines in dramas in one go.

• He drank too much and passed out.
  (He drank too much and fainted (passed out).)
  *A classic expression for when consciousness has passed out somewhere due to alcohol.

• Could you pass out these papers?
  (Could you hand out these papers to everyone?)
  *The feeling of distributing a stack from your hand to everyone's seats (outside).

■ [Brain Test] Has this image taken root?

Here is just one question to test if this feeling has been installed in your brain.

Your friend has been standing outside in the sweltering midsummer heat and is wobbling. If you were to say, "Wow, he's about to pass out from the heat!", what would go in the parentheses?

I think he is going to ( ) ( ) from the heat!

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The answer is... pass out!

• I think he is going to pass out from the heat!
  (It's the feeling that his consciousness is about to slip out of his body due to the heat!)

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Thank you for reading until the end!
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