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get through

verb

  1. to succeed or cause or help to succeed in an examination, test, etc
  2. to bring or come to a destination, esp after overcoming problems

    we got through the blizzards to the survivors

  3. intr, adverb to contact, as by telephone
  4. intr, preposition to use, spend, or consume (money, supplies, etc)
  5. to complete or cause to complete (a task, process, etc)

    to get a bill through Parliament

  6. adverbfoll byto to reach the awareness and understanding (of a person)

    I just can't get the message through to him

  7. slang.
    intr, adverb to obtain illegal drugs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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That will give the Eagles some confidence and, if they play like they did against Arsenal on Wednesday, they have got a great chance of getting through.

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Reflecting on the recovery, Flintoff said he "didn't think I had it in me to get through" the ordeal.

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That message is getting through to some people living in the country without authorization.

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Montebello resident Rosa Maria Juarez, 96, doesn’t like what’s happening to the country, and in these tumultuous times, she has a strategy for getting through each day.

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So how do you get through it, and what can parents and carers to do help?

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