Drupes

Where did you come across the word 'drupes'?

You have been around long enough to know that we often need context to help us help you soheil. Why do we so often have to drag it out of you?

Do you mean dupes?

He probably does, but some more context would still be helpful. Don't hold your breath.

I believe that drupes are fleshy parts of apricots and peaches. The individual tiny fleshy parts of raspberries are drupelets.

Edited to add: I checked, and the whole fruit of that type (also called stonefruit) is a drupe, not just the fleshy part.

Yes, sorry, dupes.
But what does it mean?
There is an elitist tendency amongst intellectuals to sneer at consumers and
consumption, as if consumption is mindless, and consumers are dupes (Miller, 1995;
Storey, 1999).

There is an elitist tendency amongst intellectuals to sneer at consumers andconsumption, as if consumption is mindless, and consumers are dupes (Miller, 1995;

soheil1consumers are dupes

Try your dictionary, soheil, for 'dupe'. It is not an idiom. The phrase's meaning is straightforward.