Comparing Apples and Oranges

“You’re comparing apples to oranges,” might find its way into a conversation where someone has attempted to equate two different topics. Some people may think about the choice phrase and might come up with many similarities between the two fruits: they both have skin and a stem, they both grow on trees, they both come in many different varieties, they both taste sweet, and they both come in liquid form. Not totally satisfied with …

…skin encasing the separate sections is broken, the juice of the orange freely flows out. Although people have found apples and oranges have some common features, their differences far outweigh their similarities. Comparing both the outer and inner appearances of apples to oranges, from a glance and up close, has proven, beyond doubt, that the two fruits are incomparable. The conclusion shows that the expression is very appropriate to use when unlike topics are compared.