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Meaning of to compare apples and/with oranges in English

to compare apples and/with oranges

idiom (also to mix apples and/with oranges); (something is apples and oranges)
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used to say that two things are completely different and it is not sensible to compare them:
The ratio of exports to GDP is very misleading. It compares apples and oranges.
You're comparing apples with oranges. They are two very different jobs, with very different types of stress.
He seems to be mixing apples and oranges. He's talking about movies, not television.
You can't compare the new scores to the previous years. It's apples and oranges.
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