separate wheat from chaff

Sort the valuable from the worthless, as in I hope we'll get a preview of the auction so we can separate the wheat from the chaff. This idiom alludes to the ancient practice of winnowing grain.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cherryl	SHER-əl, CHER-əl	English
Ian	[iən]
Frigyes	-	Hungarian
Marlena	mahr-LEEN-ə (English), mahr-LE-nah (Polish)	English, Polish
Col	-	Medieval English
Adalwolf	-	Ancient Germanic