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idiom (also to mix apples and/with oranges); (something is apples and oranges) Add to word list. used to say that two things are completely different and it is not sensible to compare them: The ratio of exports to GDP is very misleading. It compares apples and oranges. You're comparing apples with oranges.
To compare apples and oranges means to make a comparison between two things that are not enough alike to merit comparison—as is the case with the apple (a pome fruit from a tree of the genus Malus) and the orange (a globose berry from a tree of the genus Citrus).
When you’re comparing apples to oranges, you’re comparing two things that are fundamentally different and, therefore, shouldn’t be compared. It’s a light-hearted way to say that it’s impossible, or at least unfair, to compare two items or situations because they’re simply not alike.
(American English) used to describe a situation in which two people or things are completely different from each other: He was no competition for me: it was like apples and oranges. See also: and , apple , orange
Oranges, like apples, grow on trees. At least two tongue-in-cheek scientific studies have been conducted on the subject, each of which concluded that apples can be compared with oranges reasonably easily and on a low budget, and the two fruits are quite similar.
LIKE APPLES AND ORANGES - Sinónimos, palabras relacionadas y ejemplos | Diccionario Cambridge de Sinónimos y Antónimos en Inglés.
30 de mar. de 2017 · It is not possible to compare apples and oranges. But it is possible to compare apples and oranges in terms of some specific attribute — to say that apples deliver twice as many calories per dollar or that oranges deliver twice as many vitamin C units per dollar.
