🐑 Sheep
"Separate the sheep from the goats"
Meaning
To tell the good from the bad or the skilled from the unskilled.
About the sheep
Sheep follow the flock rather than break away, which is the basis for idioms about blind conformity.
Example sentence
The final race separated the sheep from the goats.
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Which idiom means...
To tell the good from the bad or the skilled from the unskilled.
More sheep idioms
SheepIdiom
"Black sheep"
A person who is different from the rest of the family or group, often in a way others criticize.
SheepIdiom
"Follow like sheep"
To copy others without thinking.
SheepIdiom
"Get someone's goat"
To annoy someone.
SheepIdiom
"Black sheep"
A person who is different from the rest of a group.
SheepIdiom
"Black sheep"
A person who is different from the rest of a family or group.