go through one

Idioms  

1. Use as an intermediary, as in Bob can't release that; you'll have to go through the main office . Also see go through channels .

2. Also, go right through one (like a dose of salts) . Be rapidly excreted without being digested. For example, I don't know why, but Thai cooking goes right through me , or That banana drink went through Dad like a dose of salts .

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go through one

“No one benefits when real-estate listings are not public and you have to go through one website or one company” to learn about what’s available to buy or rent, she said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

“We’d expect these funds to go through one to two years of maxed out redemptions—it happens in public markets all the time,” said Brian Moriarty, a research manager at fund-rating company Morningstar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

We haven’t yet seen any court of appeal weigh in on the issue, and before a Supreme Court case it would have to at least go through one court of appeal.

From Barron's ● Mar. 28, 2026

And get this: you don't even need to go through one of those nightmarish scenarios personally to be in pain.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2023

“But because each of them is locked, we can’t search all of them at once. We’ll have to go through one by one.”

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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