the obvious or easy things that can be most readily done or dealt with in achieving success or making progress toward an objective
"Maria and Victor have about three months' living expenses set aside. That's actually pretty good …. But I urged them to do better …. Looking at their monthly expenses, we found a few pieces of low-hanging fruit: Two hundred dollars a month on clothes? I don't think so. Another $155 for hair and manicures? Denied."
"As the writers and producers sat down in spring 2007 to draw the outlines of Season 7, they knew, Mr. Gordon said, that most of the low-hanging fruit in the action genre had already been picked."
"When business types talk about picking low-hanging fruit, they don't mean, heaven forbid, doing actual physical labor. They mean finding easy solutions."
Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-hanging%20fru...
the obvious or easy things that can be most readily done or dealt with in achieving success or making progress toward an objective
"Maria and Victor have about three months' living expenses set aside. That's actually pretty good …. But I urged them to do better …. Looking at their monthly expenses, we found a few pieces of low-hanging fruit: Two hundred dollars a month on clothes? I don't think so. Another $155 for hair and manicures? Denied."
"As the writers and producers sat down in spring 2007 to draw the outlines of Season 7, they knew, Mr. Gordon said, that most of the low-hanging fruit in the action genre had already been picked."
"When business types talk about picking low-hanging fruit, they don't mean, heaven forbid, doing actual physical labor. They mean finding easy solutions."
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something that is easy to obtain, achieve, or take advantage of
"The easy changes have all been made. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked."
"When cutting costs, many companies start with the low-hanging fruit: their ad budgets."
"For the beauty-care industry, the teen demographic is a new category for them - low-hanging fruit."
"I'm a great believer in picking low-hanging fruit. Start with what's easy, and go higher later."
"This legislation is some of the low-hanging fruit - the issues that we can agree upon across parties and regions."