distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones去蕪存菁,區分好壞
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
N-UNCOUNT
谷糠;麩皮
Chaff is the outer part of grain such as wheat. It is removed before the grain is used as food.
PHRASE
分清良莠;去蕪存菁
If you separate the wheat from the chaff or sort the wheat from the chaff, you decide which people or things in a group are good or important and which are not.