chew the meat and spit out the bones

verb

(idiomatic) To take in a great deal of information and selectively disregard some of it as invalid or inapplicable.

I chew the meat and spit out the bones.

意味（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.