去芜存菁
去芜存菁
qù wú cún jīng
lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers; to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)
verbidiom
Traditional: 去蕪存菁
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- (verb, idiom) lit. to get rid of the weeds and keep the flowers
- to separate the wheat from the chaff (idiom)
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