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separate wheat from chaff
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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.Advertisement
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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