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Endure, survive. This idiom is used both seriously, as in Those who have lived through a depression never forget what it was like, or hyperbolically, as in That speech was endless? I thought I'd never live through it.
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): live through something
to endure something; to survive an unpleasant or dangerous time of one’s life. • I almost did not live through the operation. • I know I can’t live through another attack.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs