bear fruit
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bear fruit (third-person singular simple present bears fruit, present participle bearing fruit, simple past bore fruit, past participle borne fruit)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bear, fruit.
- After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.
- (idiomatic) To succeed in some task; to achieve benefit from a task or project.
- Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.
- 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: Additional London-Dartford Services”, in Railway Magazine, page 386:
- Although the trains are still far from becoming overcrowded, it is understood that the efforts to make the services more widely known have borne fruit.
- 2018 July 7, Phil McNulty, “Sweden 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Maguire, outstanding once more, broke the deadlock on the half-hour when another England set-piece bore fruit - Leicester City's powerful defender flashing a header past Sweden keeper Robin Olsen from Ashley Young's corner.
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succeed in some task
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