chaff

separate the wheat from the chaff

To 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, wheat

be caught with chaff

To be easily fooled or duped. I only listened to that fool because I was caught with chaff back then.See also: caught, chaff

separate the wheat from the chaff

Prov. 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, wheat

separate wheat from chaff

Sort 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, wheat

separate the wheat from the chaff

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, wheat

be caught with chaff

be easily deceived. Chaff is the husks of corn separated from the grain by threshing. Be caught with chaff has been used since the late 15th century as a metaphor for being easily fooled or trapped.See also: caught, chaff

separate (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, wheat

sort 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, wheat

separate the wheat from the chaff, to

To 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

chaff

the dry membranous bracts enclosing the flowers of certain composite plants

Chaff

the resulting waste products from threshing and cleaning the grains of cereal and leguminous plants. It consists of hulls, bits of spikelets, ground leaves, underweight grains, and the seeds of weeds. The nutritional value of chaff is higher than that of straw. One kg of wheat chaff contains 0.43 feed units and 26 g of digestible protein; 1 kg of rye chaff contains 0.40 feed units and 21 g of digestible protein; and 1 kg of oat chaff contains 0.44 feed units and 23 g of digestible protein.

Chaff may be used in mixtures with succulent feeds, wet mash, molasses, and other slops for fattening cattle, horses, and swine. When grain is harvested by combine, the chaff is mixed with straw and is thus used as feed for animals.

chaff

[chaf] (agriculture) Seed coverings and small stem pieces which are separated from grass and grain seeds in threshing or processing. (ordnance) Thin, flat pieces of metal foil, plain or backed, designed to act as a countermeasure against enemy radar when released into the atmosphere.

chaff

The general name applied to radar confusion refractors, which consists of thin, narrow, metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses fired into or dropped through the atmosphere in order to deflect radar signals and so prevent detection by the enemy radar. These radar-reflective particulate matter or dipoles are sized to known or suspected enemy wavelengths. This is the earliest form of electronic warfare. Also known as windows.

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释义	chaff separate the wheat from the chaff To 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, wheat be caught with chaff To be easily fooled or duped. I only listened to that fool because I was caught with chaff back then.See also: caught, chaff separate the wheat from the chaff Prov. 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, wheat separate wheat from chaff Sort 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, wheat separate 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, wheat be caught with chaff be easily deceived. Chaff is the husks of corn separated from the grain by threshing. Be caught with chaff has been used since the late 15th century as a metaphor for being easily fooled or trapped.See also: caught, chaff separate (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, wheat sort 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, wheat separate the wheat from the chaff, to To 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 chaff chaff the dry membranous bracts enclosing the flowers of certain composite plants Chaff the resulting waste products from threshing and cleaning the grains of cereal and leguminous plants. It consists of hulls, bits of spikelets, ground leaves, underweight grains, and the seeds of weeds. The nutritional value of chaff is higher than that of straw. One kg of wheat chaff contains 0.43 feed units and 26 g of digestible protein; 1 kg of rye chaff contains 0.40 feed units and 21 g of digestible protein; and 1 kg of oat chaff contains 0.44 feed units and 23 g of digestible protein. Chaff may be used in mixtures with succulent feeds, wet mash, molasses, and other slops for fattening cattle, horses, and swine. When grain is harvested by combine, the chaff is mixed with straw and is thus used as feed for animals. chaff [chaf] (agriculture) Seed coverings and small stem pieces which are separated from grass and grain seeds in threshing or processing. (ordnance) Thin, flat pieces of metal foil, plain or backed, designed to act as a countermeasure against enemy radar when released into the atmosphere. chaff The general name applied to radar confusion refractors, which consists of thin, narrow, metallic strips of various lengths and frequency responses fired into or dropped through the atmosphere in order to deflect radar signals and so prevent detection by the enemy radar. These radar-reflective particulate matter or dipoles are sized to known or suspected enemy wavelengths. This is the earliest form of electronic warfare. Also known as windows. MedicalSeewindowFinancialSeeWindowAcronymsSeeCH chaff all noun verb Synonyms for chaff noun husks Synonyms husks remains refuse waste hulls rubbish trash dregs Synonyms for chaff verb to tease or mock good-humoredly Synonyms banter joke josh kid rib ride jive rag razz noun good-natured teasing Synonyms badinage banter raillery taunt ribbing Synonyms for chaff noun material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds Synonyms husk shuck stalk stubble straw Related Words bran plant material plant substance noun foil in thin strips Related Words foil verb be silly or tease one another Synonyms banter jolly josh kid Related Words bait tantalise tantalize taunt razz twit tease cod rag rally ride
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chaff

separate the wheat from the chaff

be caught with chaff

separate the wheat from the chaff

separate wheat from chaff

separate the wheat from the chaff

separate the grain from the chaff

be caught with chaff

separate (or sort) the wheat from the chaff

sort out/separate the ˌwheat from the ˈchaff

separate the wheat from the chaff, to

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noun husks

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verb to tease or mock good-humoredly

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noun good-natured teasing

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noun material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

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noun foil in thin strips

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verb be silly or tease one another

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