fruit
fruit fruit of the vine literary term for grapes.
low-hanging fruit something easily achieved or overcome; the expression dates from the late 20th century, and the image may be associated with the idea in cherry-pick.
when all fruit fails, welcome haws often used of someone taking an older or otherwise unsuitable lover (haws, the red fruit of the hawthorn, are contrasted with fruits generally eaten as food). The saying is recorded from the early 18th century.
See also Dead Sea fruit, first fruits, forbidden fruit, September blow soft, till the fruit's in the loft, stolen fruit is sweet, the tree is known by its fruit.
low-hanging fruit something easily achieved or overcome; the expression dates from the late 20th century, and the image may be associated with the idea in cherry-pick.
when all fruit fails, welcome haws often used of someone taking an older or otherwise unsuitable lover (haws, the red fruit of the hawthorn, are contrasted with fruits generally eaten as food). The saying is recorded from the early 18th century.
See also Dead Sea fruit, first fruits, forbidden fruit, September blow soft, till the fruit's in the loft, stolen fruit is sweet, the tree is known by its fruit.
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