apples and oranges, like comparing

Comparing two unlike objects or issues. This term, dating from the second half of the 1900s, has largely replaced the difference between chalk and cheese, at least in America. The latter expression of disparateness is much older, dating from the 1500s. Why apples and oranges, since they’re both fruits, and not some other object is unclear. Nevertheless, it has caught on and is on the way to being a cliché.

词组	apples and oranges, like comparing
释义	apples and oranges, like comparing apples and oranges, like comparing Comparing two unlike objects or issues. This term, dating from the second half of the 1900s, has largely replaced the difference between chalk and cheese, at least in America. The latter expression of disparateness is much older, dating from the 1500s. Why apples and oranges, since they’re both fruits, and not some other object is unclear. Nevertheless, it has caught on and is on the way to being a cliché. See also: and, apple, compare, like The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: be chalk and cheese like chalk and cheese chalk out compare apples to oranges chalk one up for (someone) not by a long chalk know chalk from cheese talking chalk it up to, to make an honest woman of somebody
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