pan out
Intermediate (B1)informal
Turn out to be successful or happen the way you expected.
"We had high hopes for the business venture, but it never quite panned out the way we imagined."
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pan out.

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to pan out.

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OxfordUnion · 1:41
how does this pan out?

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and they didn't pan out.

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Mina Kimes - ESPN · 63:50
They never pan out for us.