to discard the shadow for the substance; compare take the shadow for the substance.

truth; reality; sincerity / fidelity; faith / kindness / substance; essence / (mathematics) dividend

to select; to choose / to elect / to screen

to throw away / to abandon / to desert; to jilt

emptiness, void / falsehood, lie

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

take

seed; fruit; nut / content; ingredients / good result