"weather the storm" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-weather the storm.ogg [Australia], En-us-weather the storm.oga [US] Forms: weathers the storm [present, singular, third-person], weathering the storm [participle, present], weathered the storm [participle, past], weathered the storm [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} weather the storm (third-person singular simple present weathers the storm, present participle weathering the storm, simple past and past participle weathered the storm)
  1. (idiomatic) To reach the end of a very difficult situation without too much harm or damage. Tags: idiomatic Translations (idiomatic): selvitä tilanteesta (Finnish), τη βγάζω καθαρή (ti vgázo katharí) (Greek), przetrwać burzę [perfective] (Polish), capear el temporal (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-weather_the_storm-en-verb-e9g9NpXv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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