"low-hanging fruit" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2004, Sarah James with Torbjörn Lahti, The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to, page 201",
          "text": "Low-hanging fruits are those actions that garner early agreement and that are obtainable in the short run.",
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          "ref": "2007, Nick Johnstone, Environmental Policy and Corporate Behaviour, page 97",
          "text": "the low-hanging fruit are picked first",
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          "ref": "2008, Thomas F. Schaller, Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South, page 166",
          "text": "But, Florida aside, the low-hanging fruit is not in Dixie.",
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          "text": "But, we want to identify, the low-hanging fruit that we can harvest this year.",
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        "Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means."
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        "(idiomatic) Easily obtained gains; what can be obtained by readily available means."
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          "word": "easy pickings"
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          "word": "laaghangend fruit"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "leichte Beute"
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          "roman": "órimo froúto",
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          "word": "ώριμο φρούτο"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "un mango bajito"
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      "word": "laaghangend fruit"
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