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The phrase "ridiculous comparison" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or critiquing a comparison that seems absurd or illogical.
Example: "The argument he made was based on a ridiculous comparison between apples and oranges."
Alternatives: "absurd analogy" or "ludicrous juxtaposition."
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"That's a ridiculous comparison".
"It is a ridiculous comparison," said Perryman.
It is a ridiculous comparison – like comparing a supermarket with a local delicatessen.
The most ridiculous comparison is the one Nocera draws with the Tea Party.
It's very easy to point out why this is a ridiculous comparison.
It would still be 100% BBC and publicly owned, but could then offer market rate pay and conditions for production talent and remove the ridiculous comparison to the prime minister's salary and other canards.
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While dodging ridiculous comparisons to Donald Trump, Mr. Misrahi is not only giving the illusion he cares about the business owners of the Lower East Side, but more insultingly, he is pretending he cares about its residents.
There are valid points hidden deep in the op-ed piece (any presidential candidate should indeed care about bolstering, not shredding, our capacity to monitor and understand climate), but they are interlaced with ridiculous comparisons (Lysenkosism and climate activism).
In this case, a narcissistic, self-indulgent, hot-air-filled tome that condescends to its ostensible subject, Mrs. Nixon, and that wastes the reader's time making ridiculous comparisons between, say, the Nixons and the characters in the Raymond Carver story "Cathedral," or between the Nixons and the characters in the Chekhov story "The Lady With the Little Dog".
It is easy to look back over the year's events and assume that housing prices and ridiculous comparisons to luxury planes are the cause of the animosity toward our industry.
To call that a problem would be a bit ridiculous in comparison to, you know, actual problems, but sometimes it's easier for me to think about complex concepts through simpler metaphors.
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