ripe for the picking in English

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      },
      "expansion": "ripe for the picking",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, George L. Henderson, California and the Fictions of Capital, page 136",
          "text": "So now, it seems the real question is, If nature is ripe for the picking by capital-oriented farmers, then why should not farmers be ripe for the picking by industrial capitalists?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Ready to be taken or exploited."
      ],
      "id": "en-ripe_for_the_picking-en-adj-9x6cilLe",
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take"
        ],
        [
          "exploit",
          "exploit"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ripe for the picking"
}

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "ripe for the picking",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2003, George L. Henderson, California and the Fictions of Capital, page 136",
          "text": "So now, it seems the real question is, If nature is ripe for the picking by capital-oriented farmers, then why should not farmers be ripe for the picking by industrial capitalists?",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Ready to be taken or exploited."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take"
        ],
        [
          "exploit",
          "exploit"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ripe for the picking"
}

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"ripe for the picking" meaning in English

Adjective