chew the meat and spit out the bones

Verb

idiomatic

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

Japanese Meaning

大量の情報を取り入れ、その中から不要な部分を意図的に除外する / 情報の中から有用な部分だけを選び、残りを無視する

文献レビューの際、彼女は有益な部分を取り入れ、無関係なものは切り捨てることを学び、仮説を支持する証拠にのみ注目した。

Sense（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.

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 ）