get through

Verb

get through (third-person singular simple present gets through, present participle getting through, simple past got through, past participle (UK) got through or (US) gotten through)

1. (informal, transitive) 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...2026 June 19, Gooseworx, “Remember” (5:06 from the start), in The Amazing Digital Circus, episode 9, spoken by Kinger (Sean Chiplock)
2. (informal, transitive) 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, transitive) 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.

   Synonyms:

   burn through, run through

4. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To communicate successfully across a barrier; to make contact, or get one's point across; to reach the addressee, possibly with difficulty.
   • The earliest arrival was able to ameliorate the lot of the other, especially as he was the lucky recipient of no less than thirteen parcels of comforts and food. So you see, O women of little faith, parcels are getting through to our brave lads.1917 August 23, Clio [pseudonym], “The Ladies Letter”, in Punch, volume CXXVII, number 3239, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 2
   • My ISP offers filtering through Postini but lately there's a lot of stuff getting through even with the most aggressive filter settings.2003 February 25, Mike59Lark, “SPAM (OT)”, in alt.autos.studebaker (Usenet)

   Synonyms:

   patch, get across