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Subject: Re: "pull me through"
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Miss Elaine Eos wrote:
>> Hello everybody, this is my first post on this NG.
>> I was wondering about the sentence "pull s/o through": what does it
>> mean? I couldn't find an explanation, by googling around.
>> TIA
> To "pull through" means to persevere in the face of a difficult
> situation. To "pull another through" (or "pull me through") would be
> to help another person weather their difficult situations.
>
> "It was dire times, and the bank was about to foreclose on my house,
> but a generous gift from my grandmother pulled me through."
>
> "It was far below zero degrees, and the blizzard gave us near-zero
> visibility, but we pulled through."
Thank you very much ;)
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Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'
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