work wonders

Speech parts

1. work wonders - Verb

2. work wonders - Phrase

Meaning

(archaic, intransitive) To perform miracles or magic.

(idiomatic) (transitive with for or on) To be highly successful as a solution.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

work miracles

Examples

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. William Hazlitt

Some of my corresponents seem to think that I can work wonders. Let me say as a devotee of truth that I have no such gift. All the power I may have comes from God. But He does not work directly. He works through His numberless agencies. In this case it is the Congress. Mahatma Gandhi

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders. F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

It ain't justice, Richard, but politics, and like all politics it ain't pretty, but well done it can work wonders. Bernard Cornwell

I am tough, and sometimes I tell it like it is. Tough love can work wonders. Bikram Choudhury

Rhubarb and patience can work wonders. German Proverb

Words in the phrase

work wonders

Close letter words and terms

work with energy work with energy for work within the system work your fingers to the bone work your tail off work your way up