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What is the meaning of "come through"?
I've bought the 3rd (!!!) English dictionary with the purpose to be able to see the meanings of all the words I don't understand. Now I have CollinsCobuild and it gives me a lot of "come through" meaning and neither of them fit... So, could you tell me what is the real meaning of "come through" in the sentence below and why my CollinsCobuild doesn't give this meaning?
The sentence:
Whenever it rained, water came through Nasreddin's roof, so one day he got his ladder, climbed up on to the roof and
began to mend it.
CollinsCobuild come through meanings:
1) no passive To come through a dangerous or difficult situation means to survive it and recover from it.
2) If a feeling or message comes through, it is clearly shown in what is said or done.
3) If something comes through, it arrives, especially after some procedure has been carried out.
4) If you come through with what is expected or needed from you, you succeed in doing or providing it.
1 kwi 2017 13:16
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I'm not sure what kind of dictionary this is. You are showing four special meanings of the entire phrase "come through," meanings which are not the simple meanings you get by combining the meaning of the word "come" and the word "through."
In the sentence "water came through Nasreddin's roof" the words "came" and "through" are just separate words with their usual meanings. It means the roof leaked. It means the water entered the house.
Someone someone rings your doorbell. You say "Come in, the door's open." They enter. They came in. What opening in the house did they come through? They came through your door.
Water is not supposed to come through a roof. The roof is suppose to keep the water outside.
Another example: "If you don't seal the seams of a camping tent, water will come through at the seams."
1 kwietnia 2017
1
In this sentence, "Come through" is not being used as a phrase, but as an individual verb and preposition:
"Whenever it rained, water came (entered, advanced) through (from one side to the other of) Nasreddin's roof..."
1 kwietnia 2017
1
From your Collins CoBuild, meaning 3) seems to be the closest in meaning to the way 'come through' is used in the passage above. You might have done better with dictionary, looking up the words for 'come' and 'through' separately.
'Comes through' here simply means that the rain is soaking through the roof. The rain comes, but does not stay on the roof. It comes through and people get wet.
1 kwietnia 2017
1
In the sentence you are trying to understand, "come through" means to pass through. His roof has a leak, and the water is getting into the house. It is passing through the roof. It would often be used to explain how someone got into a place.
Person 1: How did you get into my yard? I didn't see you come through the front gate.
Person 2: I came through the side gate, on the other side of the house.
I hope this helps! :)
1 kwietnia 2017
1
In this case, come through has to bee seen as 2 different words. Here it means that some of the rain is penetrating the roof, so the wanter comes "through" the roof. This means that there is a hole in the roof and when it is raining, water enters the room. I recommend you to look up the translation for "through" in Russian, because there is no real synonym.
You looked up the meaning of "come through". This is an expression and means indeed everything you found in your dictionary.
1 kwietnia 2017
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