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| Subject | English | Russian |
| fig. | sort out the wheat from the chaff | отделить семена от плевел (Val_Ships) |
| Makarov. | sort out the wheat from the chaff | отделить пшеницу от мякины |
| idiom. | 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) |
| idiom. | 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) |