live through

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

You almost want to live through it.

From The Wall Street Journal

I thought it would be so cool to live through a time of principles and protest, of country-changing upheaval.

From The Wall Street Journal

“You don’t want to live through this, per se,” she suggests about Fiona Apple’s anxieties, which the singer bares in “The Idler Wheel . . . ,” her self-lacerating 2012 album.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’s the woman who stepped into the bass spot in Hole when Kristen Pfaff died literally moments after “Live Through This,” Hole’s first album, was about to be released, which also happened to be not long after Kurt Cobain decided to leave the planet.

From Salon

But at the end of the week, she packed up her Sunburst Precision bass and her Walkman and got on a plane to Seattle, listening to the newly-released “Live Through This” for the duration of the flight.

From Salon

Related Words

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