Verb
swing through (third-person singular simple present swings through, present participle swinging through, simple past and past participle swung through)
(baseball, idiomatic) To swing and miss at a pitch.
When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them. Brendan Fraser
Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval. F. Scott Fitzgerald
When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.' James Dobson