🗓️ Idiom: Bear Fruit (verb)
💬 Meaning
- To produce successful or positive results after effort.
- To achieve the intended outcome of work or planning.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The marketing strategy finally bore fruit after several months of testing.
- His hard work on improving client relationships bore fruit when sales increased.
- The mentorship program is beginning to bear fruit as more employees take on leadership roles.
🏛️ Origin
The idiom comes from agriculture, where “bearing fruit” literally means a plant producing fruit after growth. By the 16th century, it was used in English to describe efforts or actions producing positive results.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
The new employee training program has finally _______.
Answer
borne fruit
2. Multiple choice:
What does “bear fruit” mean?
a) To plant trees
b) To produce successful results
c) To start a project
Answer
b) To produce successful results
3. Change the sentence using “bear fruit”:
“After months of networking, his efforts led to a major business deal.”
Answer
After months of networking, his efforts bore fruit with a major business deal.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
