chaff
秕糠,糠秕,糠,谷壳
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Definitions
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- : the husks of grains and grasses that are separated during threshing.
- : straw cut up for fodder.
- : worthless matter; refuse.
- : the membranous, usually dry, brittle bracts of the flowers of certain plants.
- : Also called window. Military. strips of metal foil dropped by an aircraft to confuse enemy radar by creating false blips.
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Examples
The wheat from the chaff will get separated very, very quickly here.
You’re trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.
There is good free content on YouTube—including on Perrigo’s or Albrecht’s feeds—but you have to sift through a lot of chaff.
If Apple follows through, iOS14 will be a test of marketers’ and advertisers’ mettle, and will likely separate the wheat from the chaff.
For CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.
I say you're no good as an interview because no one is very good at sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Yankees tend to shrug off such numbers as largely the chaff drifting down.
Your miner friends notice the stiffness of your walk and chaff you about it.
For a graduate seminar at Georgetown, the chaff-to-wheat ratio is disturbingly high.
Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
Though the amount played for is serious, a good deal of rather bald conversation and chaff goes on.
Don't chaff, Shirtings; you're a very good fellow, you know, but I'm not in a laughing humour.