Name: What does APPLES AND ORANGES mean in English?
Uploaded: 2020-03-12T10:48:30.000Z
Duration: 1 min 30 s
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hi there welcome back to Harry's world of words and phrases we want to talk

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about apples and oranges very common English idiom that we use when we're talking

about comparisons but we use it in comparisons when things don't really

look alike or they can't be compared let me give you an example if you go to the

city to get something to eat you have a choice of fast-food restaurants like

McDonald's or you can go to your local home made restaurant where they serve

delicious food where you can sit down and enjoy it with your family both meals

will fill you up both meals will be satisfactory but their homemade meal in

your local restaurant but would be far superior so you can't compare McDonald's

with the homemade restaurant so it's like comparing apples with oranges both

fruits but very different okay so next time somebody uses the phrase to you or

that's apples and oranges you'll know that it's about two things that really

can't be compared okay so remember to look us up on our website

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