Luck out

luck out & lucks out lucking out lucked out lucked out

1. luck out p.v. [informal] When you luck out, something good happens to you or you avoid something bad happening to you.

Todd lucked out when he found that lottery ticket on the ground; it was a $ 1 million winner.

I missed my flight, and the plane crashed. I guess I lucked out.

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1. make ...out p.v. When you can make something out, you can see it or hear it even though it is difficult to do so.

The audio system is so bad in the bus station that I can never make out what the speakers are saying. I think that might be a mountain goat up there near the top of the mountain. I can just barely make it out with these binoculars.

2. make... out p.v. [always used with "to be"] When you make people or things out to be a certain way or a certain thing, you describe or consider them to be this way or to be this thing.

Stop complaining — my food isn't as bad as you make it out to be.

The critics made the film out to be a real bore, but I liked it.

3. make... out (to) p.v. When you write the necessary information on the front of a check, you make the check out. When you write the name of a person, company, or other organization on the check, you make the check out to that person, company, or organization.

How should I make this check out?

There must be a mistake; this check is made out to my brother, not to me.

Nancy made a check out to the IPS for $ 17,000.

made out part.adj. After the necessary information has been written on the front of a check, the check is made out.

Is the check made out, or is it blank?

4. make out (on) p.v. When you make out or make out on something, you do something successfully or survive a situation even though it may be difficult.

Karen had a job interview yesterday. I wonder how she made out.

Even though Jerry has lost his job, we'll make out somehow.

How did you make out on the test yesterday?