chew the meat and spit out the bones

Meaning: (idiomatic)To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.2002, A. Frank Goepel,A Realm Without Rules, page116:Do not swallow every story that is told. There may be a grain of truth somewhere in all the myths, butchew the meat and spit out the bones.

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