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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