work it/things

idiom

informal

: to arrange one's activities in a particular way so that it is possible for something to happen or be done

I'll try to work things so that I can come to your party.

Examples of work it/things in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Ethan Mollick, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania who studies AI and business, said company executives are seeing the benefits of AI to their businesses in early experiments and tests, and are now trying to work out how to work it into their organizations more broadly. —Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2024

To paraphrase what the late A. Bartlett Giamatti said about baseball, it’s designed to break the hearts of those who work it. —Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024

Another chart in the report (not included here) shows a first guess at emissions related to inference—when a model is doing the work it was trained for—and calls for more disclosures on this topic. —IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2024

The board members opted to bet on taking 30 days to work it out with Ellison. —Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Apr. 2024

The Senate stripped out that part of House Bill 1086; the House is likely to disagree and force the bill into a conference committee to work it out. —Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024

Though the city had hoped to work things out with the developer, Chui Family LLC did not return to the table. —Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 10 Jan. 2024

Pitaro is less a fan of punishing people in public view, choosing instead to work things out through internal discussion. —Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024

But when in doubt—when nothing else is drawing a strike—fire out a wacky rigged Senko, work it back painfully slow, and hang on. —Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024