Go Through Something: To Examine

      

Go through something: If you go through something, you examine it or try to find something in particular. Sometimes with good intentions, sometimes not. ____________________________________________________________________

Phrases

• My boss goes through my email everyday and I'm getting quite tired of this.  
• My parents went through my phone and read my messages, they say it's with the best of intentions.  
• As if it wasn't enough, the thieves are now going through trash.

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• Everyone knows it's illegal to go through someone's email account without permission.
• It's against the law to go through people's trash.

  

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