Idiom
mix apples and oranges
Meaning
To mix or confuse two completely different objects or ideas.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You cannot compare them; you are mixing apples and oranges.”
“Comparing the salary of a teacher to that of a CEO is like mixing apples and oranges.”
“The analyst argued that evaluating the company's long-term growth against short-term market fluctuations was essentially mixing apples and oranges.”
Examples
simple
“You cannot compare them; you are mixing apples and oranges.”
contextual
“Comparing the salary of a teacher to that of a CEO is like mixing apples and oranges.”
complex
“The analyst argued that evaluating the company's long-term growth against short-term market fluctuations was essentially mixing apples and oranges.”
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