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Idiom

reap the harvest

Meaning

To receive the rewards of something to one's efforts; get out what one puts in.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“If you study hard, you will reap the harvest of your work.”

“After months of careful planning and long hours, the team finally started to reap the harvest of their successful marketing campaign.”

“The aging farmer looked out over his golden fields, ready to reap the harvest that his decades of tireless labor had finally made possible.”

Examples

simple

“If you study hard, you will reap the harvest of your work.”

contextual

“After months of careful planning and long hours, the team finally started to reap the harvest of their successful marketing campaign.”

complex

“The aging farmer looked out over his golden fields, ready to reap the harvest that his decades of tireless labor had finally made possible.”

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