apartar el grano de la paja

Spanish

Verb

apartar el grano de la paja (first-person singular present aparto el grano de la paja, first-person singular preterite aparté el grano de la paja, past participle apartado el grano de la paja)

1. (idiomatic) to separate the wheat from the chaff

Further reading

• “apartar el grano de la paja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10