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Apples and oranges is a common English idiom. It is used to describe unlike objects or people.[1] One of the most well-known bits of popular wisdom in the English-speaking world is that apples and oranges cannot be compared.[2] The ability to tell apples from oranges is learned.[3]
The phrase is almost always used along with a warning that things in different categories cannot be compared,[4] or that the comparison is improper.[5]
- ↑ Amer, Christine. 1997. The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms. p19
- ↑ Glenn, Patrick. 2007. Legal traditions of the world: sustainable diversity in law, p43.
- ↑ Fahle M. 2005. "Learning to tell apples from oranges," Trends in Cognitive Science. 9(10):455-7; excerpt, "sorting them into the correct perceptual categories. Without categories, apples could not be discriminated from oranges"; retrieved 2012-4-4.
- ↑ Cambridge; 편집부 (2003). Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms. Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-521-53271-6.
- ↑ O'Sullivan, Nuala; Woods, Geraldine (2010). English Grammar Workbook For Dummies. Wiley. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-470-66557-2.