turn out all right

Idioms

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

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If only that could eventually happen, the reasoning went, things would turn out all right.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2022

It could all still turn out all right.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 7, 2022

People who say, "If you just think the right thoughts, everything is going to turn out all right," not so.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2021

The single “Appointments” concludes with Baker trying to convince herself that “maybe it’s gonna turn out all right/ Oh, I know that it’s not, but I have to believe that it is.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2021

He knew I was upset about the fight and said that everything would probably turn out all right.

From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers

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