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
Allan SloanExamples of low-hanging fruit in a Sentence
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Some hospital administrators see switching inhalers as low-hanging fruit on the list of climate-change improvements a hospital might make.
—Martha Bebinger, NPR, 6 May 2024
This low-hanging fruit is easy for IRS computers to identify and requires very little IRS resources or staff time.
—Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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Martha Bebinger, NPR, 6 May 2024
This low-hanging fruit is easy for IRS computers to identify and requires very little IRS resources or staff time.
—Guinevere Moore, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
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“Low-hanging fruit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-hanging%20fruit. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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