chaff
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8.4
- noun
- /tʃæf/
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trivialidad
- In my experience, personal insults are just chaff in the debate.
- wheat from the chaff
It'll look like let's let's get rid of the chaff so that we can just have the wheat left.
- It'll look like let's let's get rid of the chaff so that we can just have the wheat left.
- For Republicans who think they are using Trump, Trump is perpetual chaff.
- OK, so that's going to separate the wheat from the chaff, right?
- And I can separate the wheat from the chaff easily and stay on point in a debate, in a story, in a conflict.
- It makes picking the wheat from the chaff with all of that data that's out there really, really difficult because it's not.
Examples
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Trust competent administrators to separate the wheat from the chaff and get out of the way.
Blog text (13) -
You got to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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I know to separate the wheat from the chaff and let the small stuff fall away.
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I found it hard to pick the wheat from the chaff, but you have done it so well. Congratulations.
Blog text (22) -
Screen clients carefully to separate the wheat from the chaff before cases become problems.
Academic text (1998) -
Let's hope we can separate the chaff from the wheat as a society.
Blog text (21) -
And I can separate the wheat from the chaff easily and stay on point in a debate, in a story, in a conflict.
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Personally, I think it's more of a 'wheat from chaff' issue on both sides of the debate.
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You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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In their search for truth, they had to sift through the chaff to find the valuable insights.
Synonyms
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1.6
Useless or silly information, for example in unwanted emails
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9.9
Something that has no value or use
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4.6
A small unimportant thing not worth any attention
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3.5
Unimportant words in writing or speech
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1.7
A thing that is useless and not worth keeping
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8.2
A very small amount of money that hardly matters next to bigger costs
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9.9
A very small amount, almost nothing
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9.9
Something of little or no worth
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4.0
A small thing that is not important
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9.9
A small unimportant thing not worth worrying about
A small unimportant thing you do not need
Something of very poor quality not worth buying
Worthless showy things meant to impress people
People or ideas others use as unimportant material
A thing that has no practical use
A very small amount of money or something of little value
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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6.6
To pick out useful people or things from those that are not
How Worthless
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chaff meaning 'worthless' or unimportant stuff comes from the grain sense—chaff are the light bits you throw away. That's why we talk about separating the chaff from the useful parts: to find what really matters.