Idiom
chew the meat and spit out the bones
Meaning
To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Read the report, chew the meat and spit out the bones.”
“When you research this topic, you should chew the meat and spit out the bones to find the most useful facts.”
“The expert advised the students to chew the meat and spit out the bones while analyzing the outdated historical documents for relevant insights.”
Examples
simple
“Read the report, chew the meat and spit out the bones.”
contextual
“When you research this topic, you should chew the meat and spit out the bones to find the most useful facts.”
complex
“The expert advised the students to chew the meat and spit out the bones while analyzing the outdated historical documents for relevant insights.”
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