pan out

— Phrasal Verb with pan

/pæn/ verb [T] (present participle panning, past tense and past participle panned) informal

Definition

› to develop in a particular way: Not all his ideas had panned out in the way he would have liked.

(Definition of pan out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to manage not to be destroyed, harmed or permanently affected by the difficult situation you...

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