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Today, we have a phrasal verb.

Oh, this is a good one.

It is to pan out. Uh-huh. So a phrasal verb is an action verb plus a preposition.

So today's verb is pan. To pan. What does it mean to pan? Well, to pan actually comes from looking for gold. A long time ago in America, they would take these pans like a frying pan and they would dip the frying pan into a river and pick up the sand and then they would shake out the sand looking for gold they were panning for gold they were looking for money they were looking

for success so if you panned some sand from the river and you found gold,

you were successful. And that's where to pan out comes from. How did your situation pan out?

Were you successful? Did you find gold? That's the idea.

Now, many times this expression is used in a negative situation. What I mean is it didn't pan out.

How did it pan out? Well, it didn't pan out. Were you successful? No, I wasn't successful.

This is usually how you'll hear the expression. Let's check out a dialogue. Did you get that car you were

talking about? No, it didn't pan out.

Oh, what happened?

The guy was asking too much.

Perfect example.

Did you get that car you were talking about?

So this guy wanted to buy a car.

It sounds like he might have wanted a used car.

Did it pan out?

No, it didn't pan out.

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