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apple and an orange     The idiom is not unique. In Quebec
French, it may take the form comparer des pommes avec des
oranges (to compare apples and oranges), while in European
French the idiom says comparer des pommes et des poires (to
compare apples and pears). In Latin American Spanish, it is
usually comparar papas y boniatos (comparing potatoes and sweet
potatoes) or comparar peras con manzanas (comparing pears and
apples). In some other languages the term for orange derives
from apple, suggesting not only that a direct comparison between
the two is possible, but that it is implicitly present in their
names. Fruit other than apples and oranges can also be compared;
for example, apples and pears are compared in Danish, Dutch,
German, Spanish, Swedish, Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian,
Italian, Slovene, Luxembourgish, Bosnian, and Turkish. However,
apples are actually more closely