bearing fruit
Finally paying off
Bearing fruit means producing results or yielding positive outcomes.
The phrase comes from trees and plants that produce edible fruit, extended to any effort that generates tangible returns: Years of research are finally bearing fruit.
A project, relationship, or investment bears fruit when it delivers what was hoped for.
The negative not bearing fruit describes efforts that remain fruitless despite time and energy.
- prolificProducing abundantly and often
- productiveGenerating useful output
- abundantExisting in great quantity
- generativeAble to produce or create
- yieldingBending under pressure
fertile · sowing seeds · culmination · success · parable · flourishing · prosperity · achievement · fecund · progress · growth mindset · dividends · reward · propagative · harvest · realization · thriving · blooming
- progressprogress, in progress, promotion, raise, making progress
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- success idiomshit the jackpot, strike gold, make it, rags to riches, come out on top
bearing fruitbarren
Unable to produce
fruitless · unproductive · going nowhere · spinning wheels · fallow
bearing fruitfutile
Incapable of producing results
in vain · pointless · to no avail · unavailing · ineffectual
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