From the movie Tracks:
Man: Where you from?
Robyn: I grew up on a cattle station near Darling Downs.
Man: Oh, a Queenslander, eh? What'd you run?
Robyn: Hereford.
Man: Hard country, that. Reckon she copped her share of drought, eh?
Robyn: Seven years.
Man: Muster through it, did ya?
Robyn: We went broke.
I figure it means something like "plow through," but can't find it in dictionaries. What does it mean exactly? And is it specific to Australian English?
Best Answer
Aha! I found a definitive reference to a meaning of muster that's specific to Australia and New Zealand, at Wikipedia:
In your example, it looks like muster through is being used metaphorically by Australian farmers who would already be familiar with the literal meaning of mustering as making a long, difficult journey across the outback, trying to control livestock along the way. Metaphorically, it could refer to making a long "journey" through a very difficult situation.