borne fruit
Efforts paid off
To bear fruit is to produce results or yield outcomes, usually positive ones.
The phrase comes from trees and plants producing fruit, extended to any effort that generates returns.
Patience, hard work, or investments bear fruit when they pay off: Years of research have finally borne fruit.
Their negotiations bore fruit in the form of a landmark agreement.
- producedMade or created
- paid offYielded a positive result
- pickPointed breaking tool
- successfulHaving achieved one's aims
- yieldProduce or relinquish
harvest · achieved · tree · fulfillment · branch · accomplishment · come to pass · outcome · result · matured · effective · rewarding · lucrative · breakthrough · blessing · beneficial · profitable · legacy
borne fruitfailed
Did not succeed
come to nothing · fallen flat · backfired · stalled · withered on the vine
borne, fruit, bore, born, bearing, bearer, bearable, unbearable, forbear