去蕪存菁

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Chinese

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to go; to leave; to remove overgrown with weeds
exist; deposit; store
exist; deposit; store; keep; survive
 
flower of leek
trad. (去蕪存菁)
simp. (去芜存菁)
Literally: “to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers”.

Pronunciation

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Idiom

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去蕪存菁

  1. to separate the wheat from the chaff