sort out the wheat from the chaff

sort out the wheat from the chaff
sort out/separate the ˌwheat from the ˈchaff idiom
to distinguish useful or valuable people or things from ones that are not useful or have no value

We sifted through the application forms to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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