It's Time to 'Separate the Wheat from the Chaff' — VOA Learning English
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On today’s show we talk about an expression that likely came from wheat growers a long time ago. Preparing harvested wheat involves an important step – separating the wheat from the chaff.
Chaff is the outer covering of grain, the husk and other matter around the grain. Grain must be separated from chaff before it can be used for food. In farming, separating the wheat from the chaff is called winnowing or threshing.
In English, the expression “separating the wheat from the chaff” means to decide which people or things in a group are good or important and which ones are not. Who or which things can you live without?
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