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go through channels
go through (the proper) channels
to use the proper procedure, working through the correct people and offices to get something done; to cooperate with a bureaucracy. I'm sorry. I can't help you. You'll have to go through the proper channels. I didn't get what I wanted because I didn't go through channels.
go through channels
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]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Liis | | LEE:S | Estonian |
Tami | | TAM-ee | English |
Andrina | | an-DREEN-ə | English (Rare) |
ŁUcjan | | WUWTS-yahn | Polish |
Briana | | bree-AN-ə, bree-AHN-ə, brie-AN-ə | English |
Tatjana | | TAHT-yah-nah (Finnish) | Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish |