Definition of "break through" []

• Used other than as an idiom: see break,‎ through. (verb)
• To gain popularity. (verb)
• To penetrate the defence of the opposition. (verb)

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• "Larry had his hands spread reverentially on the smooth, cool surface, smearily, his cheek and chest pressed to it, too, as if absorbing the on-again, off-again sunlight, as if listening for information carried in the wires in the glass, perhaps wishing not to break through but to squeeze into its transparency, to enter the flow."
• "Her side glance caught the twinges of pain that managed to break through his severely controlled expression."
• "As they understand one another, they break through the chains society has imposed upon them, and the athlete kisses the basket case, the criminal kisses the princess, and the brain kisses the essay he wrote for Mr. Vernon—happy at last."