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nod through (third-person singular simple present nods through, present participle nodding through, simple past and past participle nodded through)

  1. (transitive) to listen to, endure, or accept something, nodding in agreement without making comment.
    • September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian[1]:
      [] burgeoning royal expenditure had been negligently nodded through by a complacent government and a compliant parliament at a time of renewed austerity and unemployment.