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No. Our definition of low-hanging fruit is ever evolving. There's always the next lowest fruit.
by Swizec 10y ago
No. Our definition of low-hanging fruit is ever evolving. There's always the next lowest fruit.
- throwanem 10y agoHaving grown up around apple orchards, I feel it perhaps worth mentioning that this is not in fact true. The fruit that hangs low does so because its weight bends the branches. Once it's picked, the rest is considerably harder to reach. That's why the phrase means what it does. (If you're interested, the word "windfall" is of similar origin. It refers to fruit shaken loose of the tree by a stiff wind, thus requiring no effort to collect beyond that involved in simply bending to pick it up.)
- Swizec 10y agoThanks! I learned something today.