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‘He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.’

‘I think the real danger if you take them off a balancer or trace element supplement and just feed them chaff or local stuff then they can become short of breath.’

‘They each get through six buckets of chaff, hay, bran and molasses a day, plus all the mints, carrots and apples they are given by grateful landlords and landladies on their delivery round.’

‘It is said that only in the No.1 Food Store can people buy chaff.’

‘At its side you could see a cow munching on a pile of chaff.’

1.2Worthless things; trash.

‘Words, words, words: we have so many words, and they are chaff, but where is THE WORD that in the beginning was God and was with God?’

‘The irony is that, in editing, one has to lie to tell the truth, otherwise the audience would die of boredom or the truth would be smothered under a mountain of chaff.’

‘I'm one of you, folks - I've been there, but you must truly be careful and expose chaff where it exists.’

‘I want to tell my children and my grandchildren that their parents and grandparents were neither super-men nor human chaff.’

‘German, rather bravely, had agreed to defend George Galloway against somebody who was sufficiently well informed to cut through his evasive chaff, and came out of the experience somewhat dazed and confused.’

‘It takes an incisive professional to cut through all this self-indulgent chaff to bring you the priceless kernel of truth, so here goes…’

‘These are no doubt important and significant issues that need to be considered, but let us cast them aside as so much chaff.’

‘They're the reason we have 98% chaff on the shelves.’

‘Learn to listen out for instinct, to separate it from the usual mental chaff, that bit of info, chant, incantation, poem that downloads itself into yer head aint easy.’

‘Which is a shame because strip away the chaff and you will find an interesting, diverse artist who has produced an impressive body of work.’

‘Most morality and the things which provoke the ‘Angry of Tunbridge Wells’ letters are all just chaff when compared to the real things which have been sorted out and the things which do need sorting out in the world.’

‘So, today, I had a thunderstruck few minutes when I entered the bookshop, comprehending just how much chaff has been created by Dan Brown's bloody book.’

‘Kylie ruled… but Hear'Say and Westlife's manufactured chaff made the charts less relevant than ever.’

‘One name, however, stands out among the free-agent chaff - Derian Hatcher, defenseman for the Dallas Stars.’

‘The Fraser Inquiry will ascribe blame for technical mishaps and bureaucratic incompetence, but history will judge all that mere chaff.’

‘His article crosses the line from constructive and thoughtful criticism to contrarian polemic, the net effect being a dilution of truly worthwhile lessons at the expense of extraneous chaff.’

‘Yes, there's still a lot of chaff out there, and it's the reader's responsibility to sift and choose.’

‘In this case, the presiding judge cut through the legal chaff and ruled that the request for information was reasonable.’

‘However, there's a hell of a lot of chaff to go through as well.’

‘Mohamed searches out quality (most of his list costs north of £20 a bottle), but there is simply no chaff.’

‘The countermeasures system can dispense chaff cartridges and infrared flares and the POET and GEN-X active expendable decoys.’

‘It holds 160 chaff / flare packages, up to five times more than conventional dispensers.’

‘He put two frag grenades, two smoke grenades and two chaff grenades into their respective compartments.’

‘Navy procedures for limiting the use of essential training equipment such as chaff, flares, and radar-warning gear to only fleet assigned aircraft and those working up for sea duty was also identified as a problem.’

‘Radar sensitive chaff (mica and silica) in the chemical mixture permits tracking of chemical agent dispersal patterns in the atmosphere.’

‘Various antennas related to the mission sprouted from the fuselage while four wing pylons held other related equipment such as chaff dispensers and noise jammers.’

‘The one in the D seat handles the airplane's defensive systems, responsible for electronic counter-jamming of enemy radars trying to lock onto the bomber and punching chaff or flares if an enemy gets a shot off at them.’

‘The countermeasures system includes a pilot illumination radar warning receiver, chaff and infrared decoy dispensers, and an active multi-mode jammer located in the wingtip pods.’

‘Initially the second Exocet's radar locked onto the Invincible; however, large amounts of chaff caused it to break lock.’

Phrases

separate the wheat from the chaff

Distinguish valuable people or things from worthless ones.

‘The betting market promises to be the best guide to sorting the wheat from the chaff in the first two-year-old race of the season, the Ballyhane Stud Brocklesby Stakes.’

‘It took over an hour to sort the wheat from the chaff - and that was just going through the subject lines to pick out the usual suspects.’

‘The problem comes in sorting the wheat from the chaff, and you or I can only try to assess the performance of our local authority planning department.’

‘Doing this will sort the wheat from the chaff and will save time, effort and tears.’

‘I sat down one no-doubt-procrastinatory afternoon and sorted the wheat from the chaff.’

‘Perhaps that might help to sort the wheat from the chaff.’

‘There are lots of tributes out there and the crowds soon learn to sort the wheat from the chaff.’

‘The market will have to sort the wheat from the chaff.’

‘Certainly a ringtone reduces pop songs down to their barest essentials and in doing so sorts the wheat from the chaff.’

‘There's more of everything, a plethora of competing versions vying for the user's attention and, to cap it all, the web is so jam-packed with information that it's getting harder by the day to sort the wheat from the chaff.’