pan out

[pan out] {v.}, {informal} To have a result, especially a good result; result favorably; succeed.

* /Suppose the class tried to make money by selling candy. How would that pan out?/

* /Edison's efforts to invent an electric light bulb did not pan out until he used tungsten wires./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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