うまくいく
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan)
Usually written in kana
1. to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
It doesn't look like it's going well.
Pitch accent
う
まくいく
Top 1700
Composed of
skilfully; skillfully; successfully; smoothly; deliciously
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
Examples (54 in total)
I hear that it isn't going well.
Everything will be fine.
At least it seems to have worked.
The surgery was a success.
It turned out well.
Did the interview go well?
I don't get along with my neighbors.
I thought that went well.
Is everything going OK at work?
It won't go smoothly from the very beginning.
Everything appears to be going well.
How are you getting along in your new job?
So far we have been quite successful.
I think I did well on the exam.
How are you getting along with your new classmates?
Everything is going well at present.
It might work out surprisingly well.
His business is doing well.
I get along well with all the staff.
I am getting along well with my father-in-law.
I bet everything will turn out well.
Are Tom and Mary getting along?
I am not sanguine that the negotiations will succeed.
As yet, everything has been going well.
This method is sure to work.
It's a bad idea, but it might work.
No matter how many times I try, it just won't go right.
I hope your plan will work out.
I think everything is going well.
If there had been no intervention, the two would surely have gotten along well.
It is doubtful whether this will work.
He's getting on well in his new business.
Is the new job going well for your younger brother?
I tried twice, but neither try worked.
I'm getting along with my mother-in-law very well.
But all in all, things have gone well.
Cheer up! Everything will soon be all right.
We had expected that you would succeed this time.
How's it going with your family?
Everything went better than I had expected.
He tried to make his wife happy, but he couldn't.
He devised various schemes, but none of them worked.
Thanks to your help, we were successful.
Everyone knows each other, so there's no reason it shouldn't work out, right?
I hope your business trip to France was successful.
The attempts only worked about thirty percent of the time.
She has a very good relationship with her students.
With just a little more effort, he would have succeeded.
He did well in all subjects, particularly mathematics.
We had a good many anxious moments, but everything turned out all right in the end.
Most of the people here don't get along with their parents.
The interview went off so well that he got the job.
If Bob had taken my advice, everything would be all right now.
That company is doing very well in terms of total sales.