Pass Mak(mark)

Pass mak is equivalent to “it’s reached the boiling point” or “too much.” The last time I heard this was when the recently discharged soldiers were rioting outside the army barracks because they hadn’t been paid in four months. Every week the army general told them to come back the next week in order to collect their overdue payment. When no payment surfaced, the rioting would ensue. An old woman, walking by the scene of the angry soldiers pushing at the gate of army headquarters, muttered “pass mak!”