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Low hanging fruit

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Low hanging fruit means a task that is easy to finish with little effort. It describes something that can be done quickly before moving on to harder work.

The phrase comes from fruit growing on a tree. The fruit that hangs low is the easiest to reach and pick without climbing.

They started by fixing the small problems first because those were the low hanging fruit.