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follow out
verb
- tr, adverb to implement (an idea or action) to a conclusion
Idioms and Phrases
Bring to a conclusion, carry out. For example, The second volume simply followed out the theories presented in the first , or He instructed them to follow out their orders to the letter . This idiom is dying out. [Mid-1700s]Example Sentences
He argued that woman's intuition was often better than a man's reason and that I should follow out my original plan.
The maps are also well done, and therefore useful in enabling a reader to follow out the details of the narrative.
But he was left to follow out his own plans, and march to the Confederate capital by any route he saw fit.
I will get you a place on any newspaper you may select if you promise faithfully to follow out my instructions.
"What a pleasant thing it is, Cecil, to follow out one's own life and study what we wish," said Anna.
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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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