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What are apples and oranges?

What are apples and oranges? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) Said of a comparison of items that are not comparable.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see apples,‎ and,‎ oranges.
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But to compare the price of a voluntary system with that of a mandatory system is like comparing, unfortunately, apples and oranges.
Some would say this is apples and oranges, that recreational golf is different to tournament golf.
We are apples and oranges who need to knock the top banana off of his pedestal.
Thousands of free apples and oranges will be handed out each day as the government urges in-school tuck shops to serve healthier snacks.
Mr. Speaker, we are talking apples and oranges here, not a comparison with respect to the member.
I was suggesting that somehow they were more rigorous, but you say it's apples and oranges.

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