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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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From what I read last night, it seemed like these two reports were comparing apples and oranges.
We cannot compare apples and oranges, that is, salaries paid by a large corporation and those paid by a small one.
Whether he is celebrating museums or apples and oranges, silver and gold or light and water, poem after poem explores the inseparability of art and life.
The members over there want to compare apples and oranges and cry that it is not fair.
Some would say this is apples and oranges, that recreational golf is different to tournament golf.
Mr. Speaker, we are talking apples and oranges here, not a comparison with respect to the member.

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