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chewed the meat and spat out the bones

chewed the meat and spat out the bones is the simple past and past participle of chew the meat and spit out the bones.

Meaning of chew the meat and spit out the bones

Verb

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

  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

Questions about chewed the meat and spat out the bones

What is chewed the meat and spat out the bones the simple past and past participle of?
Chewed the meat and spat out the bones is the simple past and past participle of chew the meat and spit out the bones.

Words near chewed the meat and spat out the bones in the dictionary

  1. chewed on one's nails
  2. chewed out
  3. chewed over
  4. chewed the cud
  5. chewed the fat
  6. chewed the meat and spat out the bones
  7. chewed the meat and spit out the bones
  8. chewed the scenery
  9. chewed up
  10. chewed up and spat out
  11. chewed up and spit out

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