"Crash or crash through"?

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Hi,I have read an article on a newspaper, but I didn't undestand it properly. The article is "Crash or crash through"?Can anyone explain it for me? Thanks.

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Hello, Eddie—and welcome to English Forums.

We will need considerably more information or at least some of the text of the article.

Eddie Nguyen · Answer

Hi Mister,

Thanks for your reply. Here are some of the text of the article:

"Tony Abott's last party room meeting before his MPs and senators headed home for Chirstmas should have been a happy event, with the polls showing the Coalition would win an election in a landslide. Instead it was tense and tetchy.

Abbott slapped down backbencher and former Howard goverment adviser Kelly O'Dwyer for questioning short cuts taken in party decision-making processes, telling herto ring her old boss Peter Costello and her "ask him what he used to do". "It was a rude and pointless put down", a colleague said. The Coalition leader bristled at suggestions he should tone down his negativity. He had to calm rural Liberal MPs angry at the growing influence of the Nationals."

Thanks!

Mister Micawber · Answer

Then I guess crash = fail (the party crashed) and crash through = succeed, make a major breakthrough (the party crashed through). But it may be an Aussie idiom instead.

Eddie Nguyen · Answer

Hi Mister,

That sounds reasonable.

Thanks!

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