I feel like the phrase “don’t compare apples and oranges” is more like “don’t stick your head into a campfire”. It’s clearly possible, but that’s not the issue here.
There was a big thread a while ago where one subset of posters were like “you clearly CAN compare them this is stupid” and another subset was saying “but the point of the idiom is doing so is fruitless”. Not sure what’s so hard to grasp about using an inappropriate metric to judge something.
But then again maybe most people use the idiom in senseless ways.
I feel like the phrase “don’t compare apples and oranges” is more like “don’t stick your head into a campfire”. It’s clearly possible, but that’s not the issue here.
There was a big thread a while ago where one subset of posters were like “you clearly CAN compare them this is stupid” and another subset was saying “but the point of the idiom is doing so is fruitless”. Not sure what’s so hard to grasp about using an inappropriate metric to judge something.
But then again maybe most people use the idiom in senseless ways.
Not true, at least two pieces of fruit are involved!
The customer is always right. Blood is thicker than water. I’m sure there are a ton of other ones