C1idiomsuccessIELTS-friendly
bear fruit
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to finally produce good results after a lot of effort or time
Common in news and business writing about efforts, plans and investments. The past tense is 'bore fruit'.
In context
Years of practising English every day finally bore fruit when she got a job at an airline.
The new marketing strategy is starting to bear fruit, with sales up ten percent.
More idioms about success
- a blessing in disguisesomething that seems bad at first but later brings a good result
- a long shotan attempt or guess that has very little chance of success
- a Pyrrhic victorya win that costs so much that it is hardly worth winning
- against all oddsalthough success seemed very unlikely
- back to square oneback at the start, because an earlier attempt has failed