Come Through An Operation

[smeydiss]

We thought he wasn't going to come through it.

Does it mean «We thought he will not remain alive»?

[Buenchico]

From the Oxford English Dictionary:
https://ibb.co/zFzV3w5

[pixie374]

Yes

[Jackdaw33]

In this sense to come through means to survive.

[Old_Geezer]

Thus the statement sometimes given by doctors. "He was at death's door, but we pulled him through."

[Peter Pedant]

yes 'come through' here has the meaning of survive
come out means wake up

phrasal verbs in English - very common and very difficult for the learner

[Peter Pedant]

this also means that in simple English - you cannot do a word-for-word translation
but that the words either side ( context ) are important for meaning

( same in Mandarin apparently)