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put through

vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To connect (a telephone caller with intended callee). 2 (context idiomatic English) to cause to endure 3 (context transitive soccer English) To pass the ball to (someone) giving them a one-on-one scoring opportunity.

WordNet
put through
  1. v. pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue; "Did he go through with the treatment?"; "He implemented a new economic plan"; "She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal" [syn: follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, go through]

  2. connect by telephone; "the operator put a call through to Rio"

Usage examples of "put through".

Some of the men who'd advanced with him, the odd numbers covered by the evens, fired also, but there wasn't need for more bullets than the one Stephen Gregg put through each Federation skull.

If he simply called Novak Tower and asked for Administrator Ford, he not only would not be put through to him but his call would be switched to the Department of Public Safety for some unwelcome inquiries, sure as taxes.

But I was surprised when he told me to put through the order dismissing her.

My situation as more guest than family had made me talk and walk with circumspection ever since I had been sorrowfully and firmly put through a discussion session for defending my absent father's beliefs with my fists when I was all of ten.

Finally he recognized the familiar voice of one of the operators at the Kremlin who put through calls to the dacha.

He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions.

And there was a certain rail- road in India he had helped put through.

He didn't put through calls from different places in use by the invaders.

Makri has an unfortunate habit of wondering out loud about getting rings put through her nipples and I never like to hear this sort of thing.

It was twenty-one thirty when he put through a call on the vehicle's talker to the Office of the Governor.

To provide the planned crews for the Fleet, Earth had been stripped of likely candidates and they were put through months and years of simulator training in preparation for when they would venture forth to triumph in space.

How much energy could you put through a properly programmed wellstone matrix, and for how long?

It took me a while to get put through to a human but the kittens' nurse was there.

He is succeeded by a woman, who is put through the same heroic treatment, and exhibits like fortitude.

Dialing again, I asked to be put through to the Chappy Ward nursing desk.