wheat

Never Eat Shredded Wheat

A mnemonic device for the names and clockwise order of the cardinal points, North, East, South, West. (Shredded Wheat is a kind of breakfast cereal.) A: "We're supposed to drive east. So if that way is north, then we need to go this way." B: "No, dude, that's west. Remember, Never Eat Shredded Wheat."
See also: eat, never, shred, wheat

separate the wheat from the chaff

To separate the good or valuable from that which is inferior. With so many manuscripts arriving daily, it's a challenge to separate the wheat from the chaff and spot the really exceptional ones.
See also: chaff, separate, wheat

you shred it, wheat

dated slang I agree completely; what you said is especially true. A pun on "you said it" and the breakfast cereal Shredded Wheat. Primarily heard in Canada. A: "Wow, that exam was brutally difficult." B: "You shred it, wheat! It was the hardest test I've ever taken."
See also: shred, wheat
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

separate the wheat from the chaff

Prov. to separate what is useful or valuable from what is worthless. When it comes to books, time will separate the wheat from the chaff. Good books will have lasting appeal, and the rest will be forgotten. The managers hoped that the new procedure for evaluating employees would separate the wheat from the chaff.
See also: chaff, separate, wheat
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

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.
See also: chaff, separate, wheat
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

separate the wheat from the chaff

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separate the grain from the chaff

If you separate the wheat from the chaff or separate the grain from the chaff, you decide which things or people in a group are good or necessary, and which are not. The first two rounds of the contest separate the wheat from the chaff. Judges should not forget that when you separate the wheat from the chaff, you should try to keep the wheat. Note: You can use sort or sort out instead of separate. It's up to Wilkinson to sort out the wheat from the chaff and get the team back to the top of the table. Note: You can refer to the good or necessary things or people in a group as wheat or grain, and to the others as chaff. There's so little wheat in all this chaff. Was there rather less grain than chaff? Note: `Chaff' refers to the outer covers of wheat or other cereal which are separated from the grain by a process called winnowing. In the Bible (Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17), John the Baptist uses the image of someone separating the wheat from the chaff to describe how Jesus will separate those who go to heaven from those who go to hell.
See also: chaff, separate, wheat
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

separate (or sort) the wheat from the chaff

distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones.
Chaff is the husks of corn or other seed separated out when the grain is winnowed or threshed. The metaphorical contrast between wheat and chaff is drawn in several passages in the Bible, for example in Matthew 3:12: ‘he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire’.
See also: chaff, separate, wheat
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

sort out/separate the ˌwheat from the ˈchaff

separate people or things of a better quality from those of a lower quality: When all the applications came in, our first task was to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Chaff is the outer covering of the seeds of grain such as wheat, which is separated from the grain before it is used.
See also: chaff, out, separate, sort, wheat
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

separate the wheat from the chaff, to

To sort the valuable from the worthless. The analogy here is to the age-old practice of winnowing grain, formerly done by hand and now mechanized. The term persists nevertheless. G. B. McCutcheon used it in Anderson Crow (1920): “They separated the wheat from the chaff.”
See also: separate, wheat
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
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  • Pumpkin
  • My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
  • My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins
  • My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
  • My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
  • My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pumpkins
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  • My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Noodles
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There is a support price of Rs1,300 per 40kg wheat but the government of Punjab increased the amount to Rs1,375.'
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A committee of the board of Wheat Quality Australia, the Wheat Classification Council (the Council), establishes and maintains Australia's wheat variety classification system.
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Bran particle size impacts whole-wheat flour and tortilla properties
'Compared with traditional varieties, second-generation hybrid wheat consistently holds higher wheat yield results, and also has strong resistance and lower seed consumption, which is good for middle and low-yield fields.
China sends 150 agri pros to tutor Pakistanis in modern farming techniques
In the present study we examined the comparative effects of pasture-wheat rotation, including long-term pasture (4 years) or short-term pasture (1 year), grain legume, chickpea-wheat rotation and conventional till (CT) or NT wheat cropping, with and without fertiliser application, on a fertility-depleted Vertosol over a 12-year period.
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Frances is survived by her three sons, Kenneth Wheat and wife Jan of Collinsville, J.
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He said the event was aimed at bridging the gap between national consumption and local production of wheat in Nigeria.
Nigeria spends 4.2bn dollars on importation of wheat yearly
Researchers from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center have developed a number of wheat varieties by crossing wheat and grass.
Goat grass weed used to improve wheat varieties
One of the major reasons for the food-inflation remains the government's decision to increase the wheat support price by more than 300 percent in last 10 years.
Time to reduce Pakistan's rising wheat rate
ingredient listed, other than water, is whole wheat.
Whole Wheat Sliced Bread Nutritional Comparison
The rapid growth of Pakistan's urban areas indicate that demand for high-value perishable products such as wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and meat is rising.
Wheat: 60% of the daily diet of common man in Pakistan
Iran says its exports of wheat are booming with sales to 10 countries, including the United States, which is the world's largest wheat exporter and hardly seems a candidate to be buying wheat from Iran.
Iran says it is selling wheat to United States!