So as we talk about apples and oranges, that's the apples-to-apples comparison I'll leave you with.
Next to the apples and oranges: pizza boxes and a nearly empty tray of cookies.
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These big state arguments don't hold up in a general election as you're comparing apples and oranges.
Comparing an absence for military service to leaving a career to raise a child and returning is apples and oranges.
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It was perhaps more about passing out apples and oranges and pears that could hardly be seen as exact equals.
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Equating a day-trader case with an options-trader case is apples and oranges.
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But after trying to figure out apples and oranges, you know, my accountant would say, well, the thing is, he's always making money.
But comparing those numbers is, proverbially, like comparing apples and oranges.
Another part of it is I think they're apples and oranges.
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As a result, this leaves you really comparing apples and oranges.
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To crowd Lewinsky and Rwanda into the same viewfinder is not just to discuss apples and oranges but to compare, forgive me, apples and severed heads.
Mixing apples and oranges, managers argue that if they make an intentionally defective transfer of profits interests to a grantor trust, it would be as though they never gave anything away.
As a result, it is very easy to make apples-and-oranges comparisons that are misleading.
As with NCAA records, there's a certain apples-and-oranges quality to it.
That not only means fewer insects buzzing, but less pollination of crops, endangering the almond groves in California, apples in the Northeast and oranges in Florida.
Many of the spires have similar fruit motifs, and resemble grapes, apples, or oranges piled on one another as if at a supermarket.
His analysis is a clear improvement over raw, apples-to-oranges comparisons between government and private sector incomes that have many on the right so exercised.
The whole piece is excellent, pointing out the apples-to-oranges comparison between public schools and charters, noting that charters routinely push out students that underperform.
"Comparing the pre- and post- figures is like comparing apples with oranges, " Mr McNulty told MPs during a debate on police funding on 3 February 2010.
Comparing Yele, which has since closed its doors, to the Timberland and Smallholder Farmers Alliance partnership is like comparing apples to oranges.
The growth rates are apples to oranges since the December 2011 quarter had 14 weeks and the December 2012 quarter was 13 weeks.
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It is very true that our experience, leadership, dedication, loyalty and the countless other personal attributes that were honed in the line of duty count for something and are desired traits from all employees and that you will never be able to fairly compare apples to oranges(military to civilian), but those are what they are, character traits!
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You cannot count on selling apples to hedge oranges, because they are different fruits, come to market at different times and subject to mixture pricing risks.
Newton cautions that this is an apples to oranges comparison, because the Zocor studies were done with arteries in the neck, not the heart, and more tests are being done to see if ETC-216 reduces plaque in the neck.
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