I chaffed about their going and made jests about it, but since they came back they have written reports of 30,000 words each.
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We were just chaffing you during those years, just playing with you and toying with you.
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What was happening at that time was that the crowd beside me were chaffing the "specials" and the police.
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Nobody shouldchaffthese people with regard to their nervousness.
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I intended merely tochaffhim a little, but not to be offensive.
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To those whochaffagainst its restraints we argue the benefits of the social wage.
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We must sort out thechafffrom the maize in the wording of this subsection.
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Talk aboutchaff—his speech was allchaffand no wheat.
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He says that we should separate the grain from thechaffwhen speaking of prices.
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I have a suspicion that he has been blowing quite a bit ofchaffacross the table.
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The basic point is that the judiciary are remarkably good at sorting the wheat from thechaffin such cases.
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We are not dealing with ignorant people, with no ability to distinguish thechafffrom the wheat, the essential from the inessential.
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I hope that he does not mind a little friendlychaff.
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We have to sort the wheat from thechaff.
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We are providing for a local public inquiry at which the wheat can be separated from thechaffand the legitimate arguments from the illegitimate.
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