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separate wheat from chaff
Idioms and Phrases
Sort the valuable from the worthless, as in I hope we'll get a preview of the auction so we can separate the wheat from the chaff . This idiom alludes to the ancient practice of winnowing grain.Example Sentences
The underlying and self-serving Republican hope here relies on a belief that Americans are unable to separate wheat from chaff.
That kept researchers busy trying to separate wheat from chaff, and ultimately they have zeroed in on that handful of cases that have so far stumped investigators.
But to lose them in this way and for this reason is also to separate wheat from chaff.
Even if there were a magical machine designed to separate wheat from chaff, and truth from fiction, the Senate is not that machine.
The Toronto International Film Festival that winds down this weekend offers the first broad look at the new film crop—and helps separate wheat from chaff.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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