live through

Idioms and Phrases

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 .

Example Sentences

The 23-year-old actress expressed shock at having to live through "another four years of hatred" and wished that Trump's supporters would "never know peace."

From Salon

“I don’t know if I can live through another Trump era.”

From BBC

Payne could virtuosically ad-lib live through the bridge of “Summer Love” or hit piercing high notes on a cover of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel.”

From Los Angeles Times

“What he did for the community and for everybody in Los Angeles, it was amazing. And we have to now kind of live through the kind of the same way that he lived baseball, which is giving everything on the field, trying to win a championship, and after you’re done playing baseball, continue to be a good person off the field as well.”

From Los Angeles Times

I think we can live through a season where policies are made that we don't agree with.

From Salon

Related Words

• bear
• endure
• exist
• get through
• handle
• keep
• last
• live
• recover
• remain
• ride out
• subsist
• suffer
• sustain
• weather
• withstand