follow through (on something)
- follow through (on something)
follow through (on something) & carry through (onsomething)
to complete a task; to see a task through to its completion. •
You must follow through on the things that you start.
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Don't start the job if you can't follow through.
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Ask Sally to carry through on her project.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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follow through — (on (something)) to continue something until it is completed. It was an unpopular idea, but he followed through on it anyway. I am sorry now that I didn t follow through with music lessons when I was younger. Etymology: based on the sports… … New idioms dictionary
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