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Come through   /kəm θru/   Listen
Come through

verb
1.
Penetrate.  Synonym: break through.  "The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft"
2.
Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems.  Synonym: get through.
3.
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).  Synonyms: make it, pull round, pull through, survive.
4.
Attain success or reach a desired goal.  Synonyms: bring home the bacon, deliver the goods, succeed, win.  "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"






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"Come through" Quotes from Famous Books



... good living, and performs the duties of his office with an unctuous grace as something becoming and decorous to be gone through with. Evidently, he is puzzled and half-contemptuous at the revelations which come through the grating in hoarse whispers from those thin, trembling lips. That other man, who speaks with the sweat of anguish beaded on his brow, with a mortal pallor on his thin, worn cheeks, is putting questions to the celestial guide within which seem to that ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various

... followed his career Nicholson had come through his baptism of fire with flying colours. He had shown himself possessed of high courage, and had won admiration as much for his fortitude in captivity as for his bravery in action. So far, indeed, the life of a soldier had suited ...
— John Nicholson - The Lion of the Punjaub • R. E. Cholmeley

... select circle of British readers. To his American discoverers he had first appeared as an essayist, a serious essayist who wrote about aesthetics and Oriental thought and national character and poets and painting. He had come through America some years ago as one of those Kahn scholars, those promising writers and intelligent men endowed by Auguste Kahn of Paris, who go about the world nowadays in comfort and consideration as the travelling guests of that original philanthropist—to acquire ...
— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

... serious," Harriwell admitted, "but we'll come through it all right. What the sanguinary niggers need is a shaking up. Will you gentlemen please bring your rifles to dinner, and will you, Mr. Brown, kindly prepare forty or fifty sticks of dynamite. Make the fuses good and short. We'll give them a ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various

... why he did not come through the door instead of standing beneath the window, and it seemed stranger still, that after a little while all grew silent again. But her confidence never wavered, and in the darkness she knelt there patiently, knowing that he would not ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson


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