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DictionarySeechaffseparate the wheat from the chaff
separate the wheat from the chaffTo separate the good or valuable from that which is inferior. With so many manuscripts arriving daily, it's a challenge to separate the wheat from the chaff and spot the really exceptional ones.See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate the wheat from the chaffProv. to separate what is useful or valuable from what is worthless. When it comes to books, time will separate the wheat from the chaff. Good books will have lasting appeal, and the rest will be forgotten. The managers hoped that the new procedure for evaluating employees would separate the wheat from the chaff.See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate wheat from chaffSort 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. See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate the wheat from the chaff or separate the grain from the chaff If you separate the wheat from the chaff or separate the grain from the chaff, you decide which things or people in a group are good or necessary, and which are not. The first two rounds of the contest separate the wheat from the chaff. Judges should not forget that when you separate the wheat from the chaff, you should try to keep the wheat. Note: You can use sort or sort out instead of separate. It's up to Wilkinson to sort out the wheat from the chaff and get the team back to the top of the table. Note: You can refer to the good or necessary things or people in a group as wheat or grain, and to the others as chaff. There's so little wheat in all this chaff. Was there rather less grain than chaff? Note: `Chaff' refers to the outer covers of wheat or other cereal which are separated from the grain by a process called winnowing. In the Bible (Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17), John the Baptist uses the image of someone separating the wheat from the chaff to describe how Jesus will separate those who go to heaven from those who go to hell. See also: chaff, separate, wheatseparate (or sort) the wheat from the chaff distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones. Chaff is the husks of corn or other seed separated out when the grain is winnowed or threshed. The metaphorical contrast between wheat and chaff is drawn in several passages in the Bible, for example in Matthew 3:12: ‘he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire’.See also: chaff, separate, wheatsort out/separate the ˌwheat from the ˈchaff separate people or things of a better quality from those of a lower quality: When all the applications came in, our first task was to separate the wheat from the chaff. Chaff is the outer covering of the seeds of grain such as wheat, which is separated from the grain before it is used.See also: chaff, out, separate, sort, wheatseparate the wheat from the chaff, toTo sort the valuable from the worthless. The analogy here is to the age-old practice of winnowing grain, formerly done by hand and now mechanized. The term persists nevertheless. G. B. McCutcheon used it in Anderson Crow (1920): “They separated the wheat from the chaff.”See also: separate, wheat |