English with Dane

Ep:132 Phrasal Verbs with THROUGH

Hey! What’s up? What’s going on? Welcome to English with Dane: a podcast designed to improve
your English. As always, I’m your host Dane, and you can find me on Instagram
@englishwithdane. If you want transcripts for all future episodes of the podcast, go to
englishwithdane.com/transcripts and sign up (apúntate) to the Listener List. You’ll receive full
transcripts as soon as each episode comes out, so you can follow along without missing a word.
That’s englishwithdane.com/transcripts.

Today’s episode is about phrasal verbs with through. We’ve done phrasal verbs with up, down,
get, take, put, and I think a few more, and now it’s time for phrasal verbs with through. I don’t
really have much to say other than let’s do this so, let’s do this. You are listening to episode 132 of
English with Dane. Hit it!

(INTRO SONG)

OK we have officially started the show so let’s talk about phrasal verbs with through. First of all,
through means a través de, mediante, por, por medio de, incluso, gracias a.. it can mean a lot of
different things, depending on the context, so we have to bear that in mind. Tenemos que tener
eso en cuenta, we have to bear that in mind. I’m going to go through a list of phrasal verbs with
through, y sí, go through is on the list…. and i’ll give you a few examples, make sure you
understand it, and all that stuff that i normally do. So, first one:

To go through. To go through means to examine or search something very carefully. You go

through a contract to make sure everything is fine, you go through some documents to make
sure they didn’t make any mistakes, you go through your files at home to look for something you
need for whatever. (Death on the Nile, 1978 CLIP)

To go through also means to experience something. Usually something difficult, embarrassing,

painful, tragic etc. Pasar por algo, in Spanish. I’m sure everyone listening has gone through
something difficult in life. Remember the conjugation is go - went - gone. They go through tough
times, they went through tough times and they’ve gone through tough times, tiempos difíciles.
(Raise your Voice, 2004 CLIP)

Let’s check out the next phrasal verb with through. This one is to sit through. To sit through
something means to stay until the end of a tedious or long meeting or performance. Your boss is
giving a long speech and it’s super boring and generic ,pues you have to sit through it. You go
watch a movie with your partner, and you’re finding it really boring but they aren’t, so you have to
sit through it. (Love and Other Drugs, CLIP)

Next up is to scrape through. Scrape as in raspar. To scrape through means to succeed at

doing something but just barely (con las justas). For example: he didn't study for the exam and
just scraped through. Pasó justo, raspando. This one is pretty straightforward. So if you barely
make the cut, if you barely pass something, you scrape through. (Goal! CLIP) A quick note with
this one: try not to say escraped through. No e sound before scraped, OK? Sssscraped.

The next phrasal verb with through is to fall through. Fall like caer. To fall through means to fail
to happen. Something that falls through doesn’t occur or happen as planned. You were going to
meet some friends, but they can’t make it so, your plans fell through. Fall - fell - fallen. My plans
fell through is something that is said quite often. Classic collocation. You’ll also hear fall through
in the context of like, he fell through the ice, but that’s not the one I’m talking about. That one is
more literal. I’m talking about: (Freaks and Geeks, 1999)

Next we have to sail through something, which is kind of the opposite of to scrape through. Sail
as in navegar. To sail through something means to do or pass something quickly and easily. He
sailed through college because he was a gifted student. You can also say breeze through as a
synonym. Breeze as in brisa. To sail through, or to breeze through, both work (ambos
funcionan). (Harold and Maude, 1971 CLIP)

OK, one more before I go. This last one is to see through something or someone. To see
through, in this context, means to realize what someone is actually like and to not be fooled by
things like appearance or false intentions. To not be tricked by someone or something. I’m sure
we’ve all been in a situation in which you meet someone and they seem fake and calculated…
and you see through them. People also say see right through them for emphasis. Again, much
like fall through, you can use see through in a literal sense but then it stops being what it is. I can
see through glass. Yes. Not the same. So, to see through, again, to not be tricked by someone
or something. To realize what someone is actually like, or see the intentions that they are trying to
hide. (J. Edgar, 2011 CLIP)

Alright that’s it for this episode of English with Dane. Thank you for listening. I hope it helped. If
you enjoy this podcast, consider supporting it financially on PATREON.COM/
ENGLISHWITHDANE. If you can’t or don’t want to, thats all good. You can also support English
with Dane by following the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen, or by giving it
a 5-star rating and sharing it with someone who you think would enjoy it. Remember,
englishwithdane.com for transcripts so you don’t miss a word, and @englishwithdane on
Instagram and Tik Tok for videos, quizzes and random stuff. Alright, talk soon. Bye-bye.