chew the meat and spit out the bones

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable. idiomatic
    — Do not swallow every story that is told. There may be a grain of truth somewhere in all the myths, but chew the meat and spit out the bones.

词形变化

chews the meat and spits out the bones present,singular,third-person chewing the meat and spitting out the bones participle,present chewed the meat and spat out the bones participle,past chewed the meat and spat out the bones past chewed the meat and spit out the bones participle,past chewed the meat and spit out the bones past
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