Low-Hanging Fruit

What it means

The obvious improvements that everyone in the room has already considered, quietly rejected, and would now like you to stop bringing up.

What it actually means

Nobody skipped this by accident. Ask why.

How it is used in a sentence

"We'll start with the low-hanging fruit and reassess in the new year."

Filed under

Business Bafflegab — Language engineered so that nothing is ever anyone’s fault and no decision is ever final.

Bafflegab — The phrase means nothing. We are ridiculing it.