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Verb

  1. (usually, transitive) To separate and recover (valuable minerals) by swirling dirt or crushed rock in a pan of water, in the manner of a traditional prospector seeking gold.
  2. (idiomatic, usually, intransitive) To succeed; to proceed according to plan; to result or end up.

Exempel

  • On the Saturday holidays in summer-time we used to borrow skiffs whose owners were not present and go down the river three miles to the cave hollow (Missourian for "valley"), and there we staked out claims and pretended to dig gold, panning out half a dollar a day at first.
  • His father came out in '49 with the gold rush crowd, panned out a good pile, and then, liking the life—San Francisco was a gay little burg those days—opened one of the crack gambling houses down on the Old Plaza.
  • Many a pretty girl I have seen in my time, who didn't pan out according to specifications when I finally met her.
  • Joey Tribbiani: "That was just a theory! There's a lot of theories that didn't pan out: lone gunman, communism, geometry…"
  • The China market is finally panning out, thanks to the voracious consumerism of the middle class.

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