Idiom Breakdown

chew the meat and spit out the bones

English coordinated pairs

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Definition

To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

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"Do not swallow every story that is told. There may be a grain of truth somewhere in all the myths, but chew the meat and spit out the bones."

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