Sunday, March 27, 2011

Pan Out and Gold Digger

Today's phrasal verb is Pan Out, which might also be considered an idiom, but I have a better idiom for later today.  Pan Out means:
To turn out or to happen, especially successfully: come to pass; succeed

The couple's reconciliation just didn't pan out 
He was very creative, although not all his ideas have panned out.
My latest sales prospect has finally panned out.   
I don't know how things will pan out now that the company's been taken over.

Maybe something bright and shiny will pan out from this

Notes:  Intransitive and inseparable.  
Synonyms:  work out, click, come out, culminate, eventuate, go over, happen, prove out, result, turn out,  yield.  
The phrase is idiomatic because it derives from the process of  washing gravel, sand, etc. in a pan to separate gold or other heavy valuable metal.   There is also a secondary meaning to this verbal phrase, though it is not very common.  It means: to zoom out with a camera in order to move back to a wider angle picture using a zoom lens.  

Pan out at this point in the script and give a wider view of the scene.

Today's idiom is Gold Digger, which is also considered slang, means:
Any woman whose primary interest in a relationship is material benefits.  Usually she is very attractive and lies about loving a man in order  to gain his wealth.  The closest male equivalent is a gigolo or boytoy.
 
That gold digger was never in love with him; she was in love with his money.
Do you see that woman over there?  Watch out for her and your wallet.  She's a gold digger.







 


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