harvest the rewards

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Dictionary meaning

to collect and enjoy the benefits, returns, or positive outcomes of previous work, investment, or effort after a period of patient waiting and persistent cultivation; the harvest metaphor frames the receipt of rewards as the culmination of a complete agricultural cycle — preparation of ground, planting, tending, weeding, and waiting through the growing season — that requires all its stages to be successfully completed before the moment of collection arrives; harvesting rewards implies that the work was done in advance and that patience and sustained effort across the growing season are what make the harvest possible; the phrase counsels both diligent investment in the early stages of any endeavour and the patient confidence that the harvest will come when the season is right, neither rushing the process nor abandoning it before the crop is ripe