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COMPARE APPLES AND ORANGES

used to say that two things are completely different and it is not sensible to compare them
 COMPARE APPLES AND ORANGES
1. You're comparing apples with oranges. They are two very different jobs, with very different types of stress.
2. You can't compare the new scores to the previous years. It's apples and oranges.


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