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go through channels
Idioms and Phrases
Use the correct procedure, especially in a hierarchy or bureaucracy. For example, You'll have to go through channels for approval of this expenditure . This term uses channel in the sense of “a conduit.†[Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
She’s trying her best to document, go through channels.
Did you expect that it would go through channels?
If I were the CEO, I would advise you to go through channels as other disgruntled coworkers do.
But failing to go through channels on a thinly sourced story — the substance of which has not been proved wrong?
Would I have loved to have been able to go through channels to sit down with everyone, with their permission?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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