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Chris -- 2025-05-10

#1 2010-06-19 15:02:04

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'low-hanging food' for 'low hanging fruit'

Sometimes low-hanging food is just that, as when campers hang their provisions from a tree to secure them from foraging bears. But in other places the phrase is a modification of the familiar metaphor, e.g.,

Mark: we’ve done only, what we like to say is the most low hanging food optimisations thus far. Very low optimisations were only running on one core, ...
www.msxbox-world.com/.../Exclusive-Gear … rview.html

Koninklijke Ahold NV Q3 2009 Earnings Conference Call Summary …
mentioned on the OpEx side, given that I think most of the low [hanging] food probably has already been taken over the last three years?
www.alacrastore.com/.../thomson-streete … l-B2548160

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