to carry through
4
3.9
- phrasal verb
- /ˈkæri θru/
:
sacar adelante
- At this time, it may seem hard to imagine, but the most positive thoughts you and your wife can muster will carry you through better than otherwise.
- carry you through the year
- carry him through difficult times
- carry you through life
So I played sports and sports kind of carried me through.
- So I played sports and sports kind of carried me through.
- OK, so I cannot depend on a large company to carry me through.
- If it's not going to carry you through, then there's usually not a strong enough reason to continue reading.
- And I really felt like God grabbed me from the back of my shirt once again and carried me through this process.
- So in that case, it was one professor, one graduate student, and a hell of a lot of books and music that to me just carried me through.
- So this supply is going to carry me through for a long, long time.
- Onward and intelligence and I was like, you know, these are the kids that our future is going to need to carry us through.
Examples
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Allow your confidence in your knowledge of the information to carry you through.
Blog text (30) -
Your strong fighting spirit will continue to carry you through.
Blog text (2) -
The initial funding carried the project through its first two phases.
Academic text (1995) -
And I really felt like God grabbed me from the back of my shirt once again and carried me through this process.
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If it's not going to carry you through, then there's usually not a strong enough reason to continue reading.
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She tried to let the gratitude carry her through the evening.
Fiction book (2002) -
I admire you for having the courage to share this, and the fortitude to carry through.
Blog text (32) -
They've carried me through hard times before, and I still have faith that they'll carry us through now.
Blog text (22) -
His support carried me through the most challenging times of my life.
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The team worked together to carry each other through the tough project.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Rescue someone or something from danger
332
2.8
To reach a place or goal after overcoming problems
53
3.9
To survive a serious illness or danger, often with help from others, and start to get better
4
4.3
Help someone survive or recover from a dangerous situation
Antonyms
How Helpful
633
1.0
4
3.9
- Informal
26
3.5
753
1.4
605
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to complete or accomplish something' is directly derivable from combining 'carry' (to move/support/continue) with 'through' (to the end/completely): the particle 'through' signals bringing an action to completion. This is a regular verb+particle composition found across languages and follows predictable semantic logic, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Carry through comes from the image of someone picking up and carrying a person through danger, like across a burning room or rough water, so the phrase means 'to help someone survive or escape'.