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Phrase(s): play through
[for golfers] to pass someone on the golf course. • Do you mind if we play through? We have to get back to the courtroom by two o’clock. • We let them play through because they were moving so fast., Phrase(s): play something through
to play something, such as a piece of recorded music, all the way through. • I played the album through, hoping to find even one song I liked. • As I played through the album, I didn’t hear anything I liked.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs