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apples and oranges

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apples and oranges (American)
if two people or things are apples and oranges, they are completely different. You can't compare inner city schools and schools in the suburbs - they're apples and oranges.
See also: apple, orange
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The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovel-full of chestnuts on the fire.
A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Charles View in context
On the table in the middle of the room was a kind of a lovely crockery basket that bad apples and oranges and peaches and grapes piled up in it, which was much redder and yellower and prettier than real ones is, but they warn't real because you could see where pieces had got chipped off and showed the white chalk, or whatever it was, under- neath.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
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