SEPARATE WHEAT FROM CHAFF Definition & Meaning

separate wheat from chaff

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.

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The underlying and self-serving Republican hope here relies on a belief that Americans are unable to separate wheat from chaff.

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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.

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But to lose them in this way and for this reason is also to separate wheat from chaff.

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Even if there were a magical machine designed to separate wheat from chaff, and truth from fiction, the Senate is not that machine.

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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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