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
Edwena	-	English (Rare)
Ackland	['æklənd]
Vann	[væn]
Mercedes	mer-THE-dhes (Spanish), mer-SE-dhes (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Dudley	DUD-lee	English
EmİNe	-	Turkish