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| old birds are not to be caught with a chaff | стреляного воробья на мякине не проведёшь (bodchik) |
| pick the wheat from the chaff | отделить зерна от плевел (отделить полезное от вредного или хорошее от плохого Val_Ships) |
| separate chaff from grain | отделить мух от котлет (Irina Primakova) |
| separate the wheat from the chaff | отделить зерна от плевел (tina_tina) |
| separate the wheat from the chaff | отделять зерна от плевел (tina_tina) |
| sort the wheat from the chaff | отделить зерна от плевел (With so many manuscripts arriving daily, it's a challenge to separate the wheat from the chaff and spot the really exceptional ones. • Some people are baffled by how to sort the wheat from the chaff when it comes to used bikes. raf) |
| sort the wheat from the chaff | отделять зерна от плевел (Imagine you are able to slice through what you are told and sort the wheat from the chaff. Anglophile) |