1.
If you get through a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult, you complete it.
I think you can get through the first two chapters.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n
2.
If you get through a difficult or unpleasant period of time, you manage to live through it.
It is hard to see how people will get through the winter...
= survive
PHRASAL VERB : V P n
3.
If you get through a large amount of something, you use it. ( mainly BRIT )
You’ll get through at least ten nappies a day.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n
4.
If you get through to someone, you succeed in making them understand something that you are trying to tell them.
An old friend might well be able to get through to her and help her...
The message was finally getting through to him.
PHRASAL VERB : V P to n , V P to n , also V P
5.
If you get through to someone, you succeed in contacting them on the telephone.
Look, I can’t get through to this number...
I’ve been trying to ring up all day and I couldn’t get through.
PHRASAL VERB : V P to n , V P
6.
If you get through an examination or get through , you pass it. ( mainly BRIT )
Did you have to get through an entrance examination?
PHRASAL VERB : V P n , also V P
7.
If a law or proposal gets through , it is officially approved by something such as a parliament or committee.
...if his referendum law failed to get through...
Such a radical proposal would never get through parliament.
= go through
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P n