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bear fruit
Idioms and Phrases
Yield results, have a favorable outcome, as in This new idea of his is bound to bear fruit . This metaphoric term, first recorded in 1879, transfers the production of fruit by a tree or plant to other kinds of useful yield.Example Sentences
And new First Amendment attacks on the constitutionality of disclosure could soon bear fruit at an increasingly deregulatory SCOTUS.
Almost everyone in tennis agrees the season should be shorter, and this was at the centre of last year's discussions - which are yet to bear fruit - about the formation of a Premium Tour.
Those talks have yet to bear fruit, but McKibbin may be gambling that a resolution could be reached soon which would extend his playing options beyond the breakaway tour.
“We don’t need to see our investment returns on year one. We just need to see that over time the investment will bear fruit and be a good investment.”
"The decisions we made around signing young players are the right decisions for this club for where we are at right now, and they will bear fruit."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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