04-26-2011, 01:00 PM
This is one of those phrases that you can look at piece by piece and remember because the two parts individually translate exactly to the correct English phrase.
Honestly, if I didn't know this phrase already, and then you gave me a sentence that used うまくいく to mean "to go well," I would have suspected you were an early learner translating English to Japanese word-for-word.
うまい - good, well-done
いく - to go
うまくいく - to go well
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