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Phrase(s): carry someone or something through something
to lift up and move someone or something through something. • We will have to carry him through the crowd to the ambulance. • Jane carried the groceries through the doorway., Phrase(s): carry someone through (something)
to sustain someone (as someone’s expenses or needs) during something. • Can this amount carry you through the week? • Yes, this will carry me through., Phrase(s): carry through (on something)
Go to follow through (on something).
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Continue with or persevere to the end, as in She carried the project through despite being ill. Shakespeare used this idiom in King Lear (1:4): "My good intent may carry through itself." [c. 1600] 2. Survive or persist, as in His excellent technique carries through all his work. 3. Also, carry one through. Enable to endure; sustain. For example, His faith helped carry him through this last ordeal. [Mid-1700s]
American Heritage Idioms