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11pull someone through (something) — pull (someone/something) through (something) to help someone or something through a difficult experience. She said her religious faith pulled her through this illness …
12pull through (something) — pull (someone/something) through (something) to help someone or something through a difficult experience. She said her religious faith pulled her through this illness …
13put (someone) through (something) — 1. to force someone to experience something unpleasant in order to help them. His teacher put him through six months of writing essays every day to improve his skills. 2. to unintentionally cause someone to experience something painful. Elaine… …
14sit through something — sit through (something) to stay until the end of something. It s hard for little kids to sit through a whole baseball game. Usage notes: often said about something you do not enjoy: We had to sit through another boring lecture …
15drive a coach and horses through something — drive a coach and horses through (something) British if someone drives a coach and horses through a rule, an opinion, a plan, or a tradition, they destroy it by doing something against it which it is too weak to prevent. His company drove a coach …
16page through something — ˌpage ˈthrough sth derived (NAmE) to quickly turn the pages of a book, magazine, etc. and look at them without reading them carefully or in detail Syn: ↑flick through something, Syn: ↑leaf through something …
17cut a (wide) swathe through something — phrase to move through something and cause a lot of change or destruction The tornado cut a wide swathe through the countryside. Thesaurus: to destroy or severely damage somethingsynonym Main entry: swathe …
18wade through (something) — 1. to read detailed or complicated information. We don t have enough staff to wade through the data. If you can wade through the ads, there s useful information here about the history of the Internet. 2. to move through a large group. We waded… …
19breeze through something — breeze through (something) to do something easily or quickly. Lisa breezed through her homework, then started practicing for the play …
20cut through something — cut through (something) to make clear something that has been made difficult to understand. She cut through all the political talk and outlined what was wrong and what could be done to fix it …
