Low-hanging Fruit — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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And now, Words and Their Stories, from VOA Learning English.
Have you ever gone to a farm or an orchard to pick fruit? Was all of the fruit easy to pick, or were some pieces easier to reach than others? Perhaps there were some apples in a tree that were too high for you to reach. And maybe you saw that others had picked the easiest fruit to reach before you.
Today’s Words and Their Stories, however, is not about fruit, but about ideas.
If you are the first person to arrive at an apple tree during harvest time, you can easily find some low-hanging fruit. These are the apples that are on the branches closest to the ground. Low-hanging fruit describes the most obvious or easiest things to do to…
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