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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

chew the meat and spit out the bones en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.
    • 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. 2002, A. Frank Goepel, A Realm Without Rules, page 116:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
chewing the meat and spitting out the bones Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chewed the meat and spat out the bones Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chewed the meat and spat out the bones Tense=Past lexicographic
chewed the meat and spit out the bones Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
chewed the meat and spit out the bones Tense=Past lexicographic
chews the meat and spits out the bones Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

separate the wheat from the chaff