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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Example Sentences

“You want to just do a better job than everybody else when you go through one.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“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 Literature

As a concept designer on Indiana Jones Adventure, Sotto, says Baxter, conceived the idea in which the ride vehicles would appear to go through one of three different doors, an illusion accomplished by a rotating wall.

From Los Angeles Times

“So I had to go through one of those vendor cashiers — 28% commission, can you believe it?”

From Los Angeles Times

Students entering campus must go through one of two entrances, show their student ID and have their bags searched.

From Los Angeles Times