Bear Fruit

Meaning of Idiom ‘Bear Fruit’

To bear fruit means to produce results; to have a satisfactory outcome or favorable outcome. ^{1 2}

Usage Examples

“If this effort is going to bear fruit we all need to give it our best.”

“He’s had a lot of ideas, but this is the first one to bear fruit.”

“The investigation into his alleged ties to organized crime never bore fruit.”

Origin

This idiom alludes figuratively to a tree producing fruit. The metaphor appears many times in the Bible, especially in regards to “bearing spiritual fruit.”

More Idioms Starting with B

• Be in Someone’s Hair
• Beat a Dead Horse
• Be a 10, to
• Buck For Something
• Bottomless Pit

More Bear Idioms

• Beware Of Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Bear Out

More Bible Idioms

• Wash Your Hands of (Someone or Something)
• Bottomless Pit
• Leopard Can’t Change Its Spots, a
• Writing On the Wall
• Turn the Other Cheek
• Take As Gospel

More Fruit Idioms

• Go Pear-shaped
• Low-Hanging Fruit
• Apple of My Eye
• Banana Republic
• Comparing Apples to Oranges

References

1. Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth M. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms. Ware: Wordsworth, 1995.
2. Ammer, Christine. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.