get through

1) PHRASAL VERB If you get through a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult, you complete it.

[V P n] I think you can get through the first two chapters.

2) PHRASAL VERB If you get through a difficult or unpleasant period of time, you manage to live through it.

[V P n] It is hard to see how people will get through the winter...

[V P n] We couldn't get through a day without arguing.

Syn:

last

3) PHRASAL VERB If you get through a large amount of something, you use it. [mainly BRIT]

[V P n] We've got through a lot of tyres...

[V P n] You'll get through at least ten nappies a day.

4) PHRASAL VERB If you get through to someone, you succeed in making them understand something that you are trying to tell them.

[V P to n] An old friend might well be able to get through to her and help her...

[V P to n] The message was finally getting through to him. [Also V P]

5) PHRASAL VERB If you get through to someone, you succeed in contacting them on the telephone.

[V P to n] Look, I can't get through to this number...

[V P] I've been trying to ring up all day and I couldn't get through.

6) PHRASAL VERB If you get through an examination or get through, you pass it. [mainly BRIT]

[V P n] Did you have to get through an entrance examination? [Also V P]

7) PHRASAL VERB If a law or proposal gets through, it is officially approved by something such as a parliament or committee.

[V P] He would be very disappointed if his referendum law failed to get through...

[V P n] Such a radical proposal would never get through parliament.