get through
verb/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/
1
Informal To overcome; to endure.
- Military training was hard, but I got through it.
- But, while the others took weeks - hell, even months - to get used to everything, myself included, you found your footing in a matter of days. And not just that - you've also become someone they can trust, even if they don't seem receptive. It's times like these they're gonna need someone like that the most. You're very strong, Pomni. And I know you'll be able to get through this.2026 June 19, Gooseworx, “Remember” (5:06 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 9, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock):
2
Informal To complete; to finish.
- She got through her book this morning!
- I was so thirsty that I got through three glasses of orange juice.
3
Informal To use up; to expend.
- Near-synonyms: burn through, run through
- With near-daily trips to Houston and back, he really gets through a lot of fuel in one month.
4
Informal To communicate successfully across a barrier; to make contact, or get one's point across; to reach the addressee, possibly with difficulty.
- Near-synonym: get across
- He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get through to him and change his mind.
4 more examples
- He was such a dyed-in-the-wool partisan that I just couldn't get it through his skull.
- "You bloody fools!" shrieked Nickle, stung by a sudden dreadful inspiration, "we've let him phone. He has got through!"1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- My father had a horror of girls' schools (and if he could “get through”—to use the orthodox expression of the spookists—he would find all his opinions on this subject more than justified by the manners, morals and learning of the young ladies of the present day) […]1920, Margot Asquith, An Autobiography:
- And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU… WILL… ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty):
- Related terms
- go through, live through