bear fruit

English

Verb

bear fruit (third-person singular simple present bears fruit, present participle bearing fruit, simple past bore fruit, past participle borne fruit)

Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see bear,‎ fruit.
To succeed in some task; to achieve benefit from a task or project.
After several barren years it was good to see the trees bearing fruit.

Many people had looked but it was unusual to see these searches bearing fruit.

Translations

succeed in some task

Chinese:
Mandarin: 見效 (zh), 见效 (zh) (jiànxiào), 結實 (zh), 结实 (zh) (jiēshí)
Finnish: tuottaa tulosta

French: porter des fruits
Russian: приноси́ть плоды́ (prinosítʹ plodý)
Spanish: dar sus frutas

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