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Pan out   /pæn aʊt/   Listen
verb
pan out  v. i.  
1.
To succeed; as, the project didn't pan out.
2.
To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. (Slang, U. S.)





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"Pan out" Quotes from Famous Books



... the boat-deck that afternoon for tea (which, by the way, he never drank, being a thorough-going coffee merchant), he said to Kitty: "You win on points. If Webb doesn't pan out, why, we can discharge him. I'll take a chance at a man who isn't afraid to look you squarely in ...
— The Voice in the Fog • Harold MacGrath
... cried his lordship. "Gad, gentlemen, we're nearly there. Blithe, you're a stage-manager in a million. The thing's going to pan out like a well-written play. What time did you tell ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
... Alice, who was getting to be a really good cook, tended to the baking. She put the big pans in, and watched the baking, and took them out when every cookie was evenly browned. Then, after she took a pan out of the oven, she gently lifted the hot cookies out from the baking pan onto a wire rack where they could cool without losing their pretty shapes. When the cookies were cool, it was Mary Jane's turn again. She put them all in ...
— Mary Jane's City Home • Clara Ingram Judson
... ideas, like many of my other youthful dreams, did not "pan out" in following them up, I found other leads ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills
... ranch according to law, you see," Miss Georgie stated with conviction. "They've got to pan out a sample of gold to prove there's pay dirt there, before they can file their claims. And they've got to do their filing in Shoshone. I suppose their notices are up O.K. I wonder, now, how they intend to manage ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower


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