bears fruit
Finally pays off
Bears fruit means to produce results or yield positive outcomes after effort or investment.
The phrase comes from fruit trees, which take years of growth before producing a harvest.
When hard work or patience finally bears fruit, the payoff arrives: Her years of research are beginning to bear fruit.
The singular form is standard even when results are multiple.
- succeedAchieve a desired aim
- thriveFlourish with vigor
- ripenReach edible maturity
- matureFully grown or developed
- produceMake or manufacture
yield · flourish · result · engender · realize · culminate · outcome · achievement · labor of love · hard work · generate · harvest · reap the benefits · pay dividends · proliferate · blossom · reward · long game
bears fruitfails
Does not succeed
falls flat · backfires · flops · goes nowhere · misfires
bears fruitfruitless
Producing no useful outcome
fails · falls flat · goes nowhere · backfires · flops
bear, bears, bearing, bearer, bearers, forbear, forbearance, fruit, fruits