“comparing apples and oranges” has always been funny to me as an expression because people’s go to…
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February 13, 2026
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>> “comparing apples and oranges” has always been funny to me as an expression because people’s go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.
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> wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them
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> see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L
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> ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. молодцы ребята продолжаем в том же духе.
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> colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.
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> and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania
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