1. work wonders - Verb
2. work wonders - Phrase
(archaic, intransitive) To perform miracles or magic.
(idiomatic) (transitive with for or on) To be highly successful as a solution.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgA 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