separate the sheep from the goats
отделить более компетентных людей от менее компетентных, разделить на две группы
I am not at all sure that joining the military is a good way to separate the men from the boys.
Другие идиомы:
- as meek as a lamb
- as gentle as a lamb
- as innocent as a lamb
- in two shakes of a lamb's tail
- like lambs to the slaughter
- get (someone's) goat
- ahead of the pack
- alley cat
- as awkward as a cow on roller skates
- as blind as a bat
- as busy as a beaver
- as clean as a hound's tooth
- as conceited as a barber's cat
- as crooked as a dog's hind leg
- as drunk as a skunk