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Come through   /kəm θru/   Listen
Come through

verb
1.
Penetrate.  Synonym: break through.  "The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft"
2.
Succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems.  Synonym: get through.
3.
Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).  Synonyms: make it, pull round, pull through, survive.
4.
Attain success or reach a desired goal.  Synonyms: bring home the bacon, deliver the goods, succeed, win.  "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"






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"Come through" Quotes from Famous Books



... talk, Jack, that the end of Wilbur will come through a woman. It was that that sent him on the long trail, you know. And this ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick

... come through the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, contain at least 25 known terrestrial elements. That they have not been found thus far to contain all of our elements is not surprising, for we should have difficulty in finding ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... go hang: what does a babbling poet know about dreams? Pauper dreams may come through those gates, for all I know; that was the kind that Homer saw, and not over clearly at that, as he was blind. But my beauty came through golden gates, golden himself and clothed in ...
— Works, V3 • Lucian of Samosata

... and snow-poles fought their way to Tweedshaws, only to learn there what all had feared—neither guard nor coachman had come through. Therefore, if by remote chance they still lived, the men must lie buried in the snow, perhaps within very few yards of the high-road. For two days scores of men searched every likely spot, but never a clue they found, except ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... Elizabeth who was the first to speak, after an aching, dull interspace of days: not, indeed, of the foolish little name that was a name no longer, but of the darkness that brooded over her soul. They had come through the shrieking, tumultuous ways of the city together; the clamour of trade, of yelling competitive religions, of political appeal, had beat upon deaf ears; the glare of focussed lights, of dancing ...
— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells


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