Easy wins that require minimal effort.
oh, its definitely lazy. and low-hanging fruit, for sure. its not "good" comedy by any stretch of the imagination. i dont expect a lot of effort from the south park crew, never have. sometimes a bitch just needs a ch…
It feels so patronizing. Like, I know they want to measure course engagement, and clicks are the low-hanging fruit, so having us click through flash cards is used to say that the content is "interactive" and that we…
Easy wins that require minimal effort. Corporate planning shorthand for the obvious first things to tackle. "Knock out the low-hanging fruit" = do the easy ones first so the dashboard looks busy. The phrase itself is low-hanging fruit for every corporate-cliché bingo card.
"Let's knock out the low-hanging fruit before investing in a rewrite."
low-hanging fruit means Easy wins that require minimal effort. It's mostly used in workplace and corporate conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
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Lazy or minimum-viable. A reply, outfit, gift, or effort that clearly took five seconds. Applied to text messages, food presentation, and especially birthday wishes: "happy bday" at 11:47pm is peak low-effort.
(UK, informal) Something easily done or obtained.
A confessional form of EZ — admitting something was surprisingly easy without making too big a deal about it. Low key ez is for when you expected a challenge, maybe told people it was hard, and then breezed through it a bit guiltily. It's humility-adjacent flex: 'I don't want to brag, but... that was not hard.' The low-key framing softens the gloat and makes it social-media safe. Very honest, very relatable, secretly still a flex.
(slang) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
Commentary: Ohio House Bill 834 is a bill designed to improve delivery of government services. Government efficiency will not solve all problems in the state, but promoting efficiency in service delivery is low-hangin…
low-hanging fruit means Easy wins that require minimal effort. It's mostly used in workplace and corporate conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
"low-hanging fruit" is slang. It means: Easy wins that require minimal effort. Register: casual. Use it in: casual conversation and online posts. Avoid in: formal writing and professional emails.
“oh, its definitely lazy. and low-hanging fruit, for sure. its not "good" comedy by any stretch of the imagination. i dont expect a lot of effort from the south park crew, never have. sometimes a bitch just needs a cheap shot at the nazis tho”
“It feels so patronizing. Like, I know they want to measure course engagement, and clicks are the low-hanging fruit, so having us click through flash cards is used to say that the content is "interactive" and that we "engaged" with the material.”
“Commentary: Ohio House Bill 834 is a bill designed to improve delivery of government services. Government efficiency will not solve all problems in the state, but promoting efficiency in service delivery is low-hanging fruit. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/05/w...”
“The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better is a pamphlet by Tyler Cowen published in 2011.”
“These figurative "low-hanging fruit" include the cultivation of much free, previously unused land, technological breakthroughs in transport, refrigeration, electricity, mass communications, sanitation, and the growth of education.”
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Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means.
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