pan out
informal— phrasal verb with pan uk/pæn/us/pæn/verb -nn-
to develop in a particular way or in a successful way:
We'll have to see how things pan out.
Their attempt to start a new business didn't pan out.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Making progress and advancing
- a step forward idiom
- advance
- advancement
- ahead
- be cooking idiom
- betterment
- develop
- go great guns idiom
- graduate
- grow
- grow into sb/sth
- grow out of sth
- have come a long way idiom
- rise
- shape
- speciation
- spread your wings idiom
- steer a course/path idiom
- step
- streak ahead
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