to get through
28
3.3
- phrasal verb
- /ɡɛt θru/
:
sobrellevar
- We'll get through this, together.
- get through the day
OK, so people do to get through their days, great.
- OK, so people do to get through their days, great.
- For me, it was I, I couldn't get through the day without feeling terrible.
- It's what do we do to get through today?
- You're just trying to get through day-to-day.
- We are being OK with people getting through life, just working and then dying.
- You know, we do the best we can to get through the day.
- And yeah, that's how we got through the days.
- And I always hope that I can get, you know, get through one more day, one more day, one more day.
- So my suggestion to you is just have cash to get through this.
- I need way more sleep than the average person just to get through a day.
- Now I'm an adult, you know, young adult, and I've got to just get through this.
- People needed them just to to heal from wounds, from battle, from everything to get through the day basically.
- And it just looks like, like you use drugs to like get through your pain, you know what I mean?
- And they needed these drugs just to get through the day.
- It's a, it's a hard world out there and we're all just doing our best to get through it.
- For anyone who's lost a loved one, my hope is that you might strike to get through each day.
- Like there's just no bandwidth for this type of quote UN quote luxury because just getting through the day is all that person can handle.
Examples
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We'll just put a smile on our faces and try to get through the evening.
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Mostly, since Nick died, I've tried to get through from one day to the next.
Fiction book (1995) -
OK, so people do to get through their days, great.
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It's what do we do to get through today?
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And I always hope that I can get, you know, get through one more day, one more day, one more day.
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God, if I can just get through this year.
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We'll get through this weekend, we'll get through tomorrow.
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We're gonna get through this.
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And how am I going to get through this day?
Fiction book (1994) -
It was a tough week, but I managed to get through each day without losing hope.
Synonyms
∞
3.6
To experience a difficult or painful time in your life
761
1.0
To spend time doing something
249
3.9
To finish an unpleasant task quickly so you do not worry about it
8
4.2
Continue and finish a task with strong effort when it is hard or you are tired
6
4.5
To spend time in a pleasant, relaxed way to make time pass quickly
How Difficult
∞
2.7
304
3.5
∞
3.2
28
3.3
121
3.1
761
1.0
- UK
1
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
get + through
There is a clear compositional link: 'get' (reach/obtain) plus 'through' (across/past/finished) conveys the idea of passing, completing, or managing to pass a period or task, so a learner can often infer a basic sense. However, the specific range of meanings (finish a task, endure a difficult period, or succeed in contacting someone) are metaphorical extensions and not fully predictable from the parts without exposure.
Etymology
Get through a difficult time can be pictured as walking through a long dark room until you reach light, so by doing small things you 'pass' the time.