bear fruit
/ˌbeə ˈfruːt/NEUTRAL · C2
Meaning
to produce good results after a lot of effort
Examples
- 1Years of hard work finally bore fruit when her first novel was published.
- 2Our efforts to cut waste in the office are starting to bear fruit.
- 3The school's new reading programme has borne fruit: exam results rose by twenty per cent.
- 4Will all these late nights of practice ever bear fruit?
- 5Months of talks between the two companies bore fruit last week with a big new deal.
Grammar
bear is irregular: bore, borne. fruit has no article or plural here. The subject is usually a plan, work or effort.
More idioms about success
All 20 idioms and the topic quiz →a feather in your capan achievement you can be proud ofrest on your laurelsto stop trying because of past successhit the jackpotto have a big success, usually through luckthe sky's the limitthere is no end to what you can achieveon a rollhaving one success after anotherback to square onehaving to start again because an attempt failed
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