come through
Meaning
- To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway.
- (idiomatic) To survive, to endure.
- To be communicated or expressed successfully.
- (intransitive, slang) To provide information on something; to confess.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) 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.
Opposite of
disappoint, fail
Synonyms
pull round
bring through
be through
become reality
get through to
Translations
Etymology
In summary
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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