get through something—
1. work one’s way through smth. particularly difficult or challenging:
- He qualifies if he gets through his two subjects this year.
2. survive a difficult period; manage to live through smth.:
- How do they ever get through Minnesota winters?
3. (of money, etc.) use up completely:
- A racecourse and thirty-nine pubs help the men to get through the ￡2,000 a year that many of them have been earning.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase get something through—
1. ensure that smth. such as a law is approved:
- The members of parliament united to get the Bill through.
2. cause smth. to reach a person:
- Whatever happens, we must get these supplies through to our men.
3. cause smth. to be understood or accepted:
- As expected, the politician had much difficulty getting his message through.
get through with something—eventually succeed in accomplishing smth.:
- Don’t know how I should get through with my work, if I were tied down to eight hours a day.
Note: The expression does not correlate in meaning with the phrase get through to something—(Sport) manage to progress as far as the last round in a competition, etc.:
- I was so excited when I got through to the finals, but I think my mum was even more pleased than me.