separate the sheep from the goats | meaning of separate the sheep from the goats in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishseparate the sheep from the goatsseparate the sheep from the goatsBritish English (also separate the wheat from the chaff)DIFFERENT to find out which people are intelligent, skilful, successful etc, and which are not  This test should really separate the sheep from the goats. → separate