bear fruit

Significado

to produce good results after a lot of effort

Produzir bons resultados depois de muito esforço.

Exemplos

1. 1Years of hard work finally bore fruit when her first novel was published.
2. 2Our efforts to cut waste in the office are starting to bear fruit.
3. 3The school's new reading programme has borne fruit: exam results rose by twenty per cent.
4. 4Will all these late nights of practice ever bear fruit?
5. 5Months of talks between the two companies bore fruit last week with a big new deal.

Gramática

bear é irregular: bore, borne. Aqui fruit não leva artigo nem plural. O sujeito costuma ser um plano, um trabalho ou um esforço.