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Meaning of "come through" and "come up"



 
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Meaning of "come through" and "come up" #1 (permalink) Mon Aug 22, 2005 2:35 am   Meaning of "come through" and "come up"
 

Test No. incompl/advan-25 "Interviews and Jobs", question 6

I think you were asking too much of that new member of staff when you expected her to ......... with a cost-cutting scheme.

(a) come over
(b) come through
(c) come by
(d) come up

Test No. incompl/advan-25 "Interviews and Jobs", answer 6

I think you were asking too much of that new member of staff when you expected her to come up with a cost-cutting scheme.

Correct answer: (d) come up
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Meaning of come through #2 (permalink) Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:43 am   Meaning of come through
 

Hi Sonia,

The meaning of come through is be successful after some difficulties. Look at this sentence: Although she had been ill for some time, she worked very hard at her exercises and eventually came through and returned to good health.

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Meaning of come through #3 (permalink) Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:35 am   Meaning of come through
 

Alan wrote:
Hi Sonia,

The meaning of come through is be successful after some difficulties. Look at this sentence: Although she had been ill for some time, she worked very hard at her exercises and eventually came through and returned to good health.

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Come up #4 (permalink) Fri Feb 17, 2006 14:17 pm   Come up
 

Hi,

There is more than one meaning. Can you give me an example you have found of its use.

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Come up #5 (permalink) Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:18 am   Come up
 

Correct! "come through" means to move into a trouble, problem or some other inhibiting entity and to sucessfully (sucessful being in the eye of the beholder) passing out of this entity. I use the term entity because people can come through many things.

Come up however is quite easy, come up means "to rise"

A problem came up
The flowers came up
His dinner came up
He came UPstairs

It just depends how you look at language. ...

Which in itself is interesting. Do we really need all these complicated words such as pronoun, noun, verb and so on? Maybe this should be for another thread. Would be an interesting discussion I am sure.
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Language #6 (permalink) Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:53 am   Language
 

Hi No Name,

I'm intrigued by your comment:

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Which in itself is interesting. Do we really need all these complicated words such as pronoun, noun, verb and so on? Maybe this should be for another thread. Would be an interesting discussion I am sure.


But then I suppose that was your cunning plan to get something started. At the same time whether we need these words is not the point. They're there - they exist. What is a poor teacher to do but try to explain!

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Meaning of "come through" and "come up" #7 (permalink) Sun Dec 11, 2011 3:05 am   Meaning of "come through" and "come up"
 

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What means cost-cutting scheme?come up?come by?come over
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Meaning of "come through" and "come up" #8 (permalink) Sun Dec 11, 2011 8:45 am   Meaning of "come through" and "come up"
 

Hello Kim

What does 'cost-cutting scheme' mean?

A cost-cutting scheme is a plan to lower the outgoing costs of a business.

'to come up with a cost-cutting scheme' means to think of the ideas that the company will use to lower costs.
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