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
Amatus	-	Late Roman
Camden	KAM-dən	English (Modern)
Efthymia	-	Greek
Ciro	CHEE-ro (Italian), THEE-ro (Spanish), SEE-ro (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish
VendelÍN	-	Czech, Slovak
Shani (1)	-	Hebrew