low-hanging fruit
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- noun
- Informal
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frutos fáciles
- Identifying the low-hanging fruit in our project will help us make progress with minimal effort.
He said this, he said make sure to grab the low hanging fruit every day.
- He said this, he said make sure to grab the low hanging fruit every day.
- What do you feel like are the most applicable low hanging fruit for people to change today?
- And then stop and ask yourself if that's the low hanging fruit.
- But you know, the the key is looking for the low hanging fruit.
- What are some things that people could be looking at like low hanging fruit on, you know, to to create a value add?
- So, so OK, that sounds like a really strong, like low hanging fruit.
- So that's my, that's my sort of, I think low hanging fruit for for cognitive function things you can do.
- Hotkeys are probably the the lowest hanging fruit for people to improve their productivity for almost no cost.
- But I would say the algorithmic solutions take care of some of the low hanging fruit.
- Try to find those things that you can do right, like the low hanging fruits, but try to build the roots for whatever will come next.
- The emerging markets experts that I speak to tell me that India still has a lot of low hanging fruit.
- There's many dirty jokes I could make currently, but I will just not pick the low hanging fruit.
- I knew that I can give them low hanging fruit strategies to get more referrals, reactivate their their clients, whether they're gym owners, chiropractors.
- So why not, you know, take the low hanging fruit, so to speak.
Examples
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To improve productivity, we should tackle the low-hanging fruit before addressing more complex issues.
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It always starts with the low-hanging fruit.
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So why not, you know, take the low hanging fruit, so to speak.
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Get the low-hanging fruit first.
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To combat this, he said, identify low-hanging fruit and create a case study around a success.
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At this point, we have picked all the low-hanging fruit in terms of transit markets.
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Ball decided to focus on the "low-hanging fruit," the computers most likely to produce responsive documents.
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But taking advantage of the low-hanging fruit of conservation and energy efficiency will make that transition easier and much less painful.
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We started with what could be considered the "low-hanging fruit" of easily observable and quantifiable instructor actions.
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Often, tackling inexpensive improvements, or "low-hanging fruit," can get the ball rolling for larger-scale efforts, he added.
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Synonyms
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1.0
Something very easy to do
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3.4
An easy decision that needs little thought
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3.6
A task that is very easy to do
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2.1
A task that is very easy to do
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1.7
Very easy to do with little skill
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3.5
A time when things move forward easily and without problems
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3.4
An easy task that you can do without much effort
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Easy to do and without problems after it starts
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7.8
An easy task that needs little effort
How Difficult
- Informal
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7.2
∞
1.6
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3.1
- Informal
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3.4
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3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
low-hanging + fruit
The meaning 'easy tasks or rewards' follows directly from combining 'low-hanging' (something hanging within easy reach) with 'fruit' (a desirable result), so the intended sense is a straightforward spatial-for-effort metaphor. This composition is common cross-linguistically and uses basic, concrete imagery, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would very likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Low-hanging fruit comes from the image of fruit hanging low on a tree, so you can pick it easily without using a ladder. That's why people call simple tasks or quick wins 'easy to achieve' and refer to them as low-hanging fruit.