amount to something meaning

• [American idiom]
  [for someone or something] to be or to become valuable or successful.
  • Most parents hope that their children will amount to something.
  • I put $200 in the bank, and I hope it will amount to something in twenty years.
  • I'm glad to see that Bill Jones finally amounts to something.
  

• With his intelligence, he should amount to something when he grows up
• You also hope this slight genre slice will amount to something.
• It may amount to nothing, but it may amount to something.
• It made us feel pretty good, like we might amount to something.
• A few even went on to amount to something somewhere in the world.
• It also amounts to something of a political challenge.
• But cumulatively, they really do amount to something.
• "You'd think this would amount to something ."
• I thought you'd amount to something ."
• I think this article can really amount to something.

• "amount to something" meaning in Chinese: 有所成就, 有所作为
• "amount to something" meaning in Japanese: ひとかどの人物｛じんぶつ｝になる、（売り上げなどが）いくらかになる