get (sth) through (to sb)
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
C1 to succeed in making someone understand or believe something:
[ + question word ] UK We can't get through to the government just how serious the problem is!
I don't seem to be able to get through to (= communicate with) him these days.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reassuring
- assure
- be/take a weight off your mind idiom
- calm (sb) down
- comfort
- comforting
- consolation
- console
- consoling
- consolingly
- convince
- emollient
- heartened
- heartening
- lighten
- mind
- no news is good news idiom
- settle (sb) down
- should
- they should worry! idiom
- weight
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Urging & persuading