carrying through

Verb

carry through (third-person singular simple present carries through, present participle carrying through, simple past and past participle carried through)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To manage to execute; to perform successfully, all the way to the end.
   • But, you know, Max, I am pledged to carry through the Vandeeming affair here in town.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To succeed; to make it.
   • It is an old tradition carried through into the information age.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To bring through difficulties etc.
   • An agreeable sense of victory and the afterglow of the flash carried Emily through the afternoon in spite of the fact that Miss Brownell ridiculed her for her mistakes in spelling.1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 8”, in Emily of New Moon