What does APPLES AND ORANGES mean in English?🍏🍊 Very short English lesson

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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
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about comparisons but we use it in comparisons when things don't really
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look alike or they can't be compared let me give you an example if you go to the
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city to get something to eat you have a choice of fast-food restaurants like
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McDonald's or you can go to your local home made restaurant where they serve
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delicious food where you can sit down and enjoy it with your family both meals
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will fill you up both meals will be satisfactory but their homemade meal in
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your local restaurant but would be far superior so you can't compare McDonald's
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with the homemade restaurant so it's like comparing apples with oranges both
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fruits but very different okay so next time somebody uses the phrase to you or
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that's apples and oranges you'll know that it's about two things that really
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can't be compared okay so remember to look us up on our website
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www.englishlessonviaskype.com or tuning to us on our youtube channel see you soon
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