| 单词 | to separate , sift, winnow) the wheat from the chaff |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto separate (also sort (out), sift, winnow) the wheat (also grain, corn) from the chaff P1. Contrasted with wheat (also grain, corn, etc.) with reference to a person who or thing which is bad or of little value. Now chiefly in to separate (also sort (out), sift, winnow) the wheat (also grain, corn) from the chaff: to distinguish good or valuable people or things from ones that are bad or of little value.With allusion to Matthew 3:12 (see quot. c1384 at sense 1aα. ) and Luke 3:17, where the chaff is traditionally interpreted as representing sinful people who are to be burned in hell, as opposed to virtuous people who are to be saved. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior thing > [noun] poornessa1382 chaffc1386 cold roast?1406 arse-guta1413 short end1560 under-kind1571 inferior1589 canvas-back1605 underthing1620 under-sort1655 wasteling1750 slouch1767 shamea1771 neck beefa1777 rep1786 wastrel1790 wastera1800 shoddy1862 piece1884 tinhorn1887 robbo1897 cheapie1898 buckeye1906 reach-me-down1916 dog1917 stinkeroo1934 bodgie1964 cheapo1975 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > worthless chaffc1386 noughta1400 noughtinga1500 trifle?a1500 undought1508 wallydraigle?a1513 jackstraw1565 oatmeal-groat1594 trasha1616 Jack-of-strawa1625 little worth1823 wanworth1832 shicer1846 nowt1847 no good1871 two-spot1885 cannon fodder1917 crumb1918 no-gooder1936 nogoodnik1936 schmatte1967 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 1710 It were a schort beyete To winne chaf and lese whete. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (1871) l. 702 Me list nat of the chaf ne of the stree Maken so long a tale, as of the corn. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse To Rdr. sig. ☞6v You may wel thinke that I sell you my corne, and eate Chaffe. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. i. 116 His reasons are as two graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall seeke all day ere you finde them, and when you haue them, they are not worth the search. View more context for this quotation 1602 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Charteris) sig. Q2 Thy words war nather corne nor caiff. 1666 tr. G. Leti Life Donna Olimpia Maldachini 2 If a Writer should take never so much pains to seperate the wheat from the chaff, that is, to pick out the good and leave the bad, according to the custom of the present times, when they treat of great persons. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vi. ix. 39 You see here [sc. Jer. xxiii. 28] a distinction made between Wheat and Chaff, true and spurious. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam vi. 6 Vacant chaff well meant for grain. View more context for this quotation 1882 Athenæum 5 Aug. 171/3 Though there is a little chaff there is also a good deal of wheat. 1957 Technology Mar. 10/1 The trade school..is well equipped to sort wheat from chaff—each candidate is given the latest types of intelligence and aptitude tests. 2018 M. Khan I am Thunder xii. 81 If you can think it, you should write it. Separating the wheat from the chaff comes later. < as lemmas |
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