come through
Meanings
verb
- To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
- To survive, to endure.
- To be communicated or expressed successfully.
- To provide information on something; to confess.
- To succeed; to survive and overcome struggles.
- To not let somebody down, keep or fulfil one's word or promise; to deliver (something).
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, through.
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Etymology
Conflation of Middle English þurȝcomyn (v. inf.), with inseparable prefix, and comen thurgh, a verb-adverb/preposition combination. Cf. German durchkommen, where the prefix is separable. Equivalent to come + through.
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