low-hanging fruit
See also: low hanging fruit
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[edit]low-hanging fruit (plural low-hanging fruits)
- (idiomatic) Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means.
- Antonym: high-hanging fruit
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2004, Sarah James with Torbjörn Lahti, The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to, page 201:
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Low-hanging fruits are those actions that garner early agreement and that are obtainable in the short run.
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2007, Nick Johnstone, Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour, page 97:
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the low-hanging fruit are picked first
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2008, Thomas F. Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, page 166:
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But, Florida aside, the low-hanging fruit is not in Dixie.
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2010, Dany Shukran, Best Practices: On Conducting International Meetings, page 18:
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But, we want to identify, the low-hanging fruit that we can harvest this year.
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[edit]- “Low-hanging fruit: the history”, by Mark Liberman of Language Log (2022-08-03)