mix apples and oranges

mix apples and oranges

To combine or compare two different things. You can't compare your job as a nurse to mine as an engineer—that's mixing apples and oranges!
See also: and, apple, mix, orange
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • compare apples and oranges
  • apples and oranges
  • oyster
  • apples to oranges
  • compare apples to oranges
  • stack up against, to
  • A2O
  • comparisons are odious
  • beyond compare
  • without compare