get through
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Definition
- Verb (transitive or intransitive):
- To successfully make contact or communicate with someone: To reach someone, especially by telephone or other means of communication.
- To successfully pass or endure a difficult period, experience, or task: To manage to complete or survive something challenging.
- To be understood or to finally be comprehended: For a message, idea, or feeling to be successfully received and understood by someone.
- To use up or pass a period of time: To spend time, often while waiting or enduring something.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- I tried calling all morning, but I couldn't get through to the office. (I couldn't make contact.)
- It was a tough winter, but we got through it together. (We survived the difficult period.)
- He explained it three times before the message finally got through. (The idea was finally understood.)
- We got through the long train journey by playing cards. (We passed the time.)
Advanced Usage
- "to get through to someone": To succeed in making someone understand something, especially when it is difficult.
- As a teacher, you must find a way to get through to every student.
- "to get something through (something)": To successfully have something (like a proposal or law) approved by an official process or group.
- The minister worked hard to get the new policy through parliament.
Variants and Related Words
- Throughput (n): The amount of material or items passing through a system or process.
- The factory increased its throughput by 20%.
- Get-through (adj, informal): Denoting something that helps one endure a difficult time.
- A get-through the day playlist.
Synonyms
- Survive: To continue to live or exist despite danger or hardship.
- Complete: To finish making or doing.
- Reach: To make contact with.
- Penetrate: To succeed in understanding or becoming aware of.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Get by: To manage to live or survive, usually with minimal resources.
- They have just enough money to get by.
- Get over: To recover from an illness or an unpleasant experience.
- It took her months to get over the flu.
Related Idioms
- Get through one's head: To finally understand or accept something (often used when someone is being slow to understand).
- He needs to get it through his head that this is a serious matter.
- Get through the day: To manage to cope with the day's demands, often when feeling unwell or unhappy.
- After the bad news, I just had to focus on getting through the day.
Verb
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
- she was penetrated with sorrow
- be in or establish communication with
- Our advertisements reach millions
- He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
- succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
- We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister
- spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
- finish a task completely
- I finally got through this homework assignment