The most easily achieved of a set of tasks, measures, goals, etc.
‘it's more difficult to produce new drugs—all the low-hanging fruit has been picked’
‘‘He is picking the low-hanging fruit,’ said one analyst.’
‘And with the successful reforms of the last 20 years, we've picked the low-hanging fruit and we're going to have to do something pretty substantial to get out of this.’
‘However, now that the low-hanging fruit has been successfully plucked the task of domestic growth is going to be that much more difficult for the superstore operators.’
‘Diminishing returns in the sciences seem inevitable because the low-hanging fruit was picked first.’
‘It's been on a growth track, and now most of the low-hanging fruit has been plucked as it were - as they call it - and in that respect, they're not going to be able to satisfy large growth projections or large growth hopes.’
‘The theme is that things like building new bridges and interchanges is great, but that these things take ten years and billions of dollars; it's worth looking at the low-hanging fruit, too.’
‘Their low-hanging fruit had long since been plucked.’
‘But the driver has to be movies because it's the low-hanging fruit.’
‘‘You get all the low-hanging fruit in the first year,’ Eggert says.’
‘But the low-hanging fruit lies in automation applications.’
‘Exchange rates are a low-hanging fruit for them, even though they are a small fruit and - from the Chinese perspective - an unripe one.’
‘But people have always mourned the loss of the low-hanging fruit - and then smart and innovative folks built taller ladders.’
‘These changes represent the low-hanging fruit of increased horsepower and add 25 horses to the 260 hp on the stock version.’
‘With much of the low-hanging fruit gone, is it time to examine the cost/ value relationship along the entire wood supply/processing chain?’
‘So rather than just chase the big innovations all the time, we should also make sure we unleash the smaller quick hits, the low-hanging fruit.’
‘Start with the low-hanging fruit - declining to cover routine briefings by government officials who refuse to be named.’
‘But email is just the low-hanging fruit of the wireless data market.’
‘Each of these products might lead us to a low-hanging fruit.’
‘These, however, look like a rather larger mountain to climb than picture phones, which you could call the low-hanging fruit of privacy invasion.’
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