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turn out all right
Idioms and Phrases
Also, work out all right . Succeed, as in The new cover turned out all right , or We're hoping their vacation will work out all right . The first term uses turn out in the sense of “result”; the variant uses work out in the sense of “proceed so as to produce a certain outcome,” a usage dating from the later 1800s. Also see pan out ; work out .Example Sentences
What Bass does from this point forward is how history should judge her — not based on where she was when there were no fires to worry about, when we all hoped things wouldn’t get too bad and foolishly assumed everything would turn out all right.
Sometimes, he said, he looks down and thinks: “Things did turn out all right in the end.”
“Maybe it’s all gonna turn out all right,” she sings, forcefully willing herself to envision a happy ending.
“You’re scared stiff, but you stagger through the events as they happen and hope everything’s going to turn out all right,” he said.
That’s why worry agitates us, persistently or even relentlessly, because it exists to engage us in dealing with future uncertainties and working to make things turn out all right.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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