Usually means: Comparing two very different things.
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  1. apples and oranges: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. apples and oranges: Wiktionary
  3. Apples and Oranges (song), Apples and oranges (disambiguation), Apples and oranges: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. apples and oranges: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (apples and oranges)

noun:  (idiomatic) A comparison of items that, however categorically similar, is inapt; an incompatible analogy, or the items so compared; a disanalogy.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see apples, and, oranges.

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