noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
separate the wheat from the chaff
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A surprising chaff inch flew down to peck at our crumbs.
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But Pavelic said experienced detectives can quickly separate the wheat from the chaff .
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Conscientious voters will take advantage of every opportunity to sort the electoral wheat from the chaff .
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False scripts were written that disturbed the tabloids' radar like metallic chaff .
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He thrust his hand into the stack of chaff up to the elbow without feeling a thing.
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In two rounds of sprinting heats on the previous day, the wheat had been sorted from the chaff .
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My first job was pulling away colder, and carting chaff .
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This would blow the chaff away.