Meaning
to yield a positive result
to produce a desired result
Examples
You’ve been going to the library everyday for the past two months so I really hope your studying bears fruit this semester.
We were pleased to see that our management training program bore fruit when staff retention and productivity both increased by more than 50% over the past year.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What does the idiom ‘bear fruit’ mean?
The idiom ‘bear fruit’ means “to deal with a difficult situation without being harmed or damaged”
How do you use ‘bear fruit’ in a sentence?
Example usage of idiom ‘bear fruit’: Newspapers have weathered the storm of online information by providing news online themselves.