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low-hanging fruit
noun
the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
a course of action that can be undertaken quickly and easily as part of a wider range of changes or solutions to a problem
first pick the low-hanging fruit
a suitable company to buy as a straightforward investment opportunity
Example Sentences
“I would say probably seven, eight, nine years ago, just having a conversation with him as far as how much he enjoyed spending time in Los Angeles, and a lot of low-hanging fruit in the sense of what this city could be, already is, and can be. He wanted to infuse kind of his intelligence, his resources. He just wanted more skin in the game. That’s just speaking for him. But he’s obviously a very smart person.”
"It's low-hanging fruit," Oryem Nyeko, a researcher working at Human Rights Watch in Uganda, told CBC at the time.
"Probably the low-hanging fruit here are the oncolytic viruses," Cadwell suggested.
What has happened, instead, is ICE agents appearing at immigration hearings, faces covered as if they were members of a paramilitary organization and not taxpayer-funded public servants, and making a big show of arresting the low-hanging fruit.
Andreas Østhagen, a senior fellow at the independent Fridtjof Nansen Institute, describes the Arctic as "low-hanging fruit" for Russian-Chinese collaboration.
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