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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]come through (third-person singular simple present comes through, present participle coming through, simple past came through, past participle come through)
- To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
- I can see Mr Smith now. Please ask him to come through.
- (idiomatic) To survive, to endure.
- He came through the surgery unharmed.
- To be communicated or expressed successfully.
- The anger in her song really came through.
- More information on the scandal is coming through now.
- (intransitive, slang) To provide information on something; to confess.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To succeed; to survive and overcome struggles.
- The team came through in the end and won the pennant.
- 2018 November 3, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- It was felt Liverpool's potent attack would provide their most severe test - and to come through against Jurgen Klopp's unbeaten side with a point will do wonders for belief and self-confidence.
- (with an object preceded by the preposition for or with) To not let somebody down, keep or fulfil one's word or promise; to deliver (something).
- Synonym: deliver
- Antonyms: disappoint, fail
- She really came through for us when the project was in trouble.
- He really came through with a lawyer when we were in trouble.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, through.
- This letter came through the letterbox.
- 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 56:
- As our tour has shown, the state of ruination of castle sites was a key factor in their fate when the railways came through.
References
[edit]- “come through”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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