We are providing for a local public inquiry at which the wheat can be separated from the chaff and the legitimate arguments from the illegitimate.
We have to sort the wheat from the chaff.
I hope that he does not mind a little friendly chaff.
We are not dealing with ignorant people, with no ability to distinguish the chaff from the wheat, the essential from the inessential.
The basic point is that the judiciary are remarkably good at sorting the wheat from the chaff in such cases.
I have a suspicion that he has been blowing quite a bit of chaff across the table.
He says that we should separate the grain from the chaff when speaking of prices.
Talk about chaff—his speech was all chaff and no wheat.
