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1. Use as an intermediary, as in Bob can't release that; you'll have to go through the main office. Also see GO THROUGH CHANNELS. 2. Also, go right through one (like a dose of salts). Be rapidly excreted without being digested. For example, I don't know why, but Thai cooking goes right through me, or That banana drink went through Dad like a dose of salts.
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