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Get through   /gɛt θru/   Listen
Get through

verb
1.
Finish a task completely.  Synonyms: clear up, finish off, finish up, mop up, polish off, wrap up.
2.
Spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner; of time.  Synonym: while away.
3.
Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems.  Synonym: come through.
4.
Be in or establish communication with.  Synonyms: contact, get hold of, reach.  "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
5.
Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions.  Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, penetrate, sink in.  "She was penetrated with sorrow"






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"Get through" Quotes from Famous Books



... every one we meet is an enemy, and we have to get past them without them seeing us; we must crawl through the long grass, or we must climb a tree, or get through the bushes; all ...
— Teddy's Button • Amy Le Feuvre

... establishment for washing clothes, where the poor can go and hire, for almost nothing, good tubs, water ready heated, the use of an apparatus for rinsing, drying, and ironing, all so admirably arranged that a poor woman can in three hours get through an amount of washing and ironing that would, under ordinary circumstances, occupy three or four days. Especially the drying closets I contemplated with great satisfaction, and hope to see in our own country the same arrangements throughout the ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... cord of the bow, and made good time where the army would have had difficulty to get through. A dozen miles below the falls and near the mouth of Kelly's Creek, where Walter Kelly was killed by the Indians early in August, I came upon a scout named Nooney. We were on the west bank and the river was two hundred yards wide at that point. Nooney begged some tobacco and pointed out a fording-place ...
— A Virginia Scout • Hugh Pendexter

... who were, with scarcely an exception, thoroughly in sympathy with the enemy, and throughout the campaign, at Modder River, Stormberg, the Tugela, and even inside Ladysmith and Mafeking spies have been repeatedly captured and shot. Some of the attempts by civilians to get through De Aar without adequate authorisation were quite amusing. I remember a particularly nice Swedish officer arriving one night, equipped after the most approved fashion of military accoutrements—Stohwasser leggings, spurs, gloves, etc., but ...
— With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train • Ernest N. Bennett

... and dressed and moped about the room feeling very miserable and unstrung, with a vision of the County Asylum for ever in his mind. He had the doctor's word for it that if he could get through to evening in safety he would be all right; but it is not very exhilarating to be waiting for symptoms, and to keep on glancing at your bootjack to see whether it is still a bootjack or whether it has begun to develop antennae and legs. At last he could stand it no longer, and an ...
— The Green Flag • Arthur Conan Doyle


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