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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



... get through time becomes sometimes the question,—unavoidably; though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours. The sullenness of a long wet day is yielding just now to an outburst of ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater

... but mysterious. Blue blazes seen by the sensitive, and all that. I studied that, and theosophy a little too, and I took up Swedenborg; but he was rather too much for me. You can't quite understand him, and then life is too short to ever get through him. So I only read what somebody else had printed about Swedenborgianism, and I understand him a good deal better that way. That's the best way to tackle him, you know. Well, now, all of these go to explain ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston

... opinions on the subject. Now on what measure of government, on what chapter of policy, on what officer of state, on what judge of the land, had his opinions or principles changed? It had been said by those who contended that Lord Eldon was not to blame for the arrears in the court, that no man could get through the business. But if the business of the court had increased, the means of disposing it had likewise increased by the establishment of the vice-chancellor's court. But instead of having an efficient chancellor, vice-chancellor, ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... where she was going, till she found herself, to her surprise and joy, close to her aunt's house. For several days she felt so tired and unhappy that she could hardly get through her work, and to make matters worse Denis scarcely ever ...
— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... to William Falling and Jarot and Isaac Williams, men who could be trusted, and who he proposed should set out at the same time, but by different routes, to warn the settlements, so that in case one or more of them was waylaid and killed the others might have a chance to get through in safety. However, at the last moment the British agent Cameron had himself disclosed the purpose of the expedition to Falling and the two brothers Williams, and detailed them with a Captain Guest to go along with the Indians as far as the Nolachucky, when they were to scatter ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 • Various


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