Meaning of "come through" and "come up"

[sonia]

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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What are the meaning of come through

sonia

[Alan]

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.

Alan
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[Guest]

[Alan]

Hi,

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

Alan
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[Onlineenglish]

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.

[Alan]

Hi No Name,

I'm intrigued by your comment: