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The moment a plan stops being a nice idea and starts being real.
means The point at which something planned or worked toward is actually achieved or realized.
from From Latin fruitio, 'enjoyment,' from frui, 'to enjoy or make use of' — the same root that gives us 'fruit' and 'frugal.' Oddly, the word originally had nothing to do with 'coming to fruition' as we use it now; it meant simple enjoyment or pleasurable possession of something. Only later, by association with 'fruit' (as in bearing fruit, the result of growth), did 'fruition' drift toward meaning the fulfillment or realization of a plan — the moment the harvest comes in.
- root
- comes from fruit, as in bearing it
- common error
- people say come to fruition twice, redundantly
- not
- not the plan itself, the payoff of it
- timing
- always feels later than you promised anyone