low-hanging fruit
noun
low-hang·ing fruit
ˈlō-ˈhaŋ-iŋ- 
: 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.—
Suze Orman
—often used with pickSuze OrmanAs 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.—Edward Wyatt
Edward WyattWhen business types talk about picking low-hanging fruit, they don't mean, heaven forbid, doing actual physical labor. They mean finding easy solutions.—Allan Sloan
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Some of their ideas are low-hanging fruit, others more far-reaching.
—Peggy Shinn, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2025
Delivering capital is low-hanging fruit for them, beneficial both for businesses intent on scaling and themselves: the benefactors of the spend.
—Brock Blake, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
To her, Persinger’s case highlighted some of the worst aspects of the state’s human smuggling arrests: Police are grabbing low-hanging fruit — who will under the new law face a mandatory 10 years in prison — but don’t appear interested in investigating the bigger fish connected to the drug cartels.
—Alejandro Serrano, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Dec. 2024
Luxury knitwear did well for us—well, all sorts of knitwear: that’s kind of low-hanging fruit in Canada!
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
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Peggy Shinn, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2025
Delivering capital is low-hanging fruit for them, beneficial both for businesses intent on scaling and themselves: the benefactors of the spend.
—Brock Blake, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
To her, Persinger’s case highlighted some of the worst aspects of the state’s human smuggling arrests: Police are grabbing low-hanging fruit — who will under the new law face a mandatory 10 years in prison — but don’t appear interested in investigating the bigger fish connected to the drug cartels.
—Alejandro Serrano, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Dec. 2024
Luxury knitwear did well for us—well, all sorts of knitwear: that’s kind of low-hanging fruit in Canada!
—Mark Holgate, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Low-hanging fruit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-hanging%20fruit. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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