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reap the harvest

idiom
Meaning

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


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.

Anchors to
Related idioms2entries
  1. 01

    reap the whirlwind

    To suffer bad consequences for one's actions.

  2. 02

    reap what one sows

    To receive as a return or reward in the same measure as one's exertions or intentions, in a good or a bad sense; to receive justice or one's just deserts.

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