low-hanging fruit
See also: low hanging fruit
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editlow-hanging fruit (plural low-hanging fruits)
- (idiomatic) Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means.
- Antonym: high-hanging fruit
- 2004, Sarah James with Torbjörn Lahti, The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to, page 201:
- Low-hanging fruits are those actions that garner early agreement and that are obtainable in the short run.
- 2007, Nick Johnstone, Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour, page 97:
- the low-hanging fruit are picked first
- 2008, Thomas F. Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, page 166:
- But, Florida aside, the low-hanging fruit is not in Dixie.
- 2010, Dany Shukran, Best Practices: On Conducting International Meetings, page 18:
- But, we want to identify, the low-hanging fruit that we can harvest this year.
- 2024 June 26, Paul Clifton, “Rail freight's agenda to survive and thrive”, in RAIL, number 1012, page 41:
- Meanwhile, it is nearly a year and a half since the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) came up with a lower-cost plan to electrify key freight routes, with added benefits for passenger services. The link to London Gateway could be wired for £8 million, which it called the "the lowest of low-hanging fruit".
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edit- “Low-hanging fruit: the history”, by Mark Liberman of Language Log (2022-08-03)