1. Anything that is difficult to achieve, and may be put off while simpler alternatives are still available.
2. Matters that take more effort and require more time and are usually most rewarding on a macro level.
3. A person whose association or cooperation with another is of vital importance; supporter.
- slang
Acclaim and Support. “Babe, you’re so magnetic! Very High Hanging Fruit!”.
- antonyms
Low-hanging fruit: quick, easy matters that require little time and usually have a short-term “feel good” effect but yield little in the way of long-term benefit; focussing on granularity.
High Hanging Fruit in foreign policy circles:
A representative responsible for the protection of the interests and nationals of a foreign state, and the promotion of information and friendly relations with a third party. Foreign ministers, excellencies, ambassadors and diplomats.
When a homosexual male finds out that he’s actually a straight male - attracted to women, after a lifetime of being with men.
1: Hey, I heard you slept with Kaitlyn last night...what gives?
2: I don’t know what came over me, I found her irresistible..I couldn’t help myself.
1: How was she compared to your boyfriend?
2: I..I think I really liked it... I think I might be hanging up the high heels...
1: Well, don’t forget the closet is always here, ready to welcome you back anytime.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)