bore fruit
Yielded positive outcomes
To bear fruit is to produce results or achieve success after effort or investment: Years of research finally bore fruit with the discovery.
The phrase comes from agriculture—trees and plants bearing edible fruit—but almost always appears figuratively.
Bore is the past tense; born fruit is incorrect.
- yieldedGave way or produced
- payoffCulminating benefit received
- pickPointed breaking tool
- culminatedReached the highest point
- fruitionAttainment of goals
achieved · harvest · reaped the rewards · mature · produced · generated · perseverance · crop · seeds planted · came through · materialized · success · bloom · accomplishment · hard work · labor of love · outcome · ripen
outcome/result
bore fruitcame to nothing
Produced no outcome
failed · fell flat · went nowhere · flopped · died on the vine
fruit, bore, bearing, fruitful, overbearing, bearable, unbearable, fruitless, borne