separate the wheat from the chaffとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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separate the wheat from the chaff (third-person singular simple present separates the wheat from the chaff, present participle separating the wheat from the chaff, simple past and past participle separated the wheat from the chaff)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To select only that which is of value.

   Synonyms: sort the wheat from the chaff, winnow the wheat from the chaff, winnow, winnow grain from chaff

   Hyponyms: (figurative) cream the crop, cherry-pick

   • 2022 July 13, Rachel Cheung, “A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia”, in Vice‎:

     As a punishment, Zhemao and her affiliated accounts were suspended permanently. Most of her articles were deleted based on community consensus. Some Wikipedians even wrote to experts, seeking help to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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