ripe for the picking

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ripe for the picking

  1. Ready to be taken or exploited.
    • 2003, George L. Henderson, California and the Fictions of Capital, page 136:
      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?
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