Pay off

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Pay off

When something pays off, it means it brings success or a good result after effort or time.

Examples:

1- Their training paid off when the team won the championship.

2- Saving a little every month paid off when she could afford the trip.

Transcript

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Today’s episode is about a teenager who spent months reading medical journals and writing to scientists—on his own, without support or funding. People ignored him. But in the end, his hard work really paid off. Let’s hear his story. 

In 2012, Jack Andraka, a 15-year-old high school student in Maryland, lost a close family friend to pancreatic cancer. He learned that this kind of cancer is often detected too late—when it’s too late to treat. He started doing his own research. He read dozens of articles, studied proteins linked to cancer, and wrote to 200 professors asking for lab space. Only one said yes.

In that lab, using simple materials, Jack created a test that was cheap, fast, and over 90% accurate at detecting pancreatic cancer. His hard work paid off when he won first place at a major science competition and was featured in news reports all over the world.

Todays phrasal verb is pay off. When something pays off, it means it brings success or a good result after effort or time.

“Her years of research finally paid off when she made a breakthrough.”
“Their training paid off when the team won the championship.”
“He worked hard on the project, and it really paid off in the end.”
“Saving a little every month paid off when she could afford the trip.”
Have you ever done something that took a lot of time or effort, but eventually paid off?That’s all for today’s episode. Thanks for listening to Daily English! See you next time.