mix apples and oranges



mix apples and oranges

To combine or compare two different things. You can't compare your job as a nurse to mine as an engineer—that's mixing apples and oranges!
See also: and, apple, mix, orange

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Fizza-Arabic
BulanBOO-lahnIndonesian
Fedotfye-DOT, fee-DOTRussian
Chander-Indian, Hindi
Vlatko-Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Vladislavavlah-dee-SLAH-vah (Russian)Russian, Czech