bear fruit

Idioms and Phrases

Yield results, have a favorable outcome, as in This new idea of his is bound to bear fruit . This metaphoric term, first recorded in 1879, transfers the production of fruit by a tree or plant to other kinds of useful yield.

Example Sentences

They can begin to bear fruit within just four years, and continue to do so for around 25 years.

From The Daily Beast

Four years before that March day, Feili had published I Will Grow, I Will Bear Fruit…Figs.

From The Daily Beast

Attempts to improve security by making it more difficult to bring weapons on base may bear fruit but face substantial hurdles.

From The Daily Beast

All those efforts are great, and many of them are likely to bear fruit in the long-term.

From The Daily Beast

Which is not to deny that some government investments can bear fruit.

From The Daily Beast

Their branches describe a circle of more than eighty feet in circumference, but they no longer bear fruit.

From Project Gutenberg

In other countries, it is scarcely fifty feet high, and does not bear fruit before it is twelve or fifteen years old.

From Project Gutenberg

I have earnestly prayed that what I am about to say may bear fruit and I know that you will bless my word with a similar prayer.

From Project Gutenberg

I saw that the poison of anxiety had entered the girl's mind; and it might, perhaps, bear fruit of no engaging quality.

From Project Gutenberg

To carry out your metaphor of the tree, the graft cut from the parent stock must bear fruit for itself.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

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