get through

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Definition
  1. 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
  1. become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
    • It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
    • she was penetrated with sorrow
  2. be in or establish communication with
    • Our advertisements reach millions
    • He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia
  3. succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
    • We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister
  4. spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time
  5. finish a task completely
    • I finally got through this homework assignment

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