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verb

pan out v. i.

To succeed; as, the project didn't pan out.

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pan out" Quotes from Famous Books

... looked at me so kindly that I thought she must mean to give a favorable answer to the buried letter. I blessed Cleopatra for the "tip" she had given, though I wondered what was the "humiliation" from which I could save her niece. "After all," said I, "the desert trip's going to pan out a success." But it must have been about this time that the wind rose. It blew Miss Hassett-Bean's hat up instead of down, and other hats off, when we had started again—and it blew into our eyes grains of sand as large as able bodied paving-stones. Also, as we passed through a ...

— It Happened in Egypt • C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson

... like I'd maybe made a bad selection then. I'm sorry about that," Harris deprecated in a negligent tone that belied his words. "It's hard to tell just how it will pan out." ...

— The Settling of the Sage • Hal G. Evarts

... servants and be obeyed, and Jesus met that faith in a marvellously unusual way. You and I are continually making mistakes and failures and "messing things up." We want to be a success in life. We want everything we undertake, in work or play, to "pan out" well. But unseen forces are at work to hinder, and circumstances intervene which we cannot control. Here's the magic secret: ...

— "Say Fellows--" - Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues • Wade C. Smith

... by no means hopeless assumption that such a change may come, how is our present civilisation going to "pan out"? ...

— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... pool-room like all the has-beens and trim the suckers right, left, and down the middle. Money's the whole thing. Get it. Don't mind how you do, but just get it. You'll be honest enough for ten men then. Anyway, there's no one cares a curse how you pan out—" ...

— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson

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