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Definitions by Elaine Pedigo

Cut to the Chaff 

Chaff is the core of the wheat from which comes grain.Cut to the chaff means to cut to the essence, the meaning, the essential of what you are trying to say.
Pre 60s....precusor of "cut to the chase"
"Blah, blah, blah"
"Cut to the chaff!"
"Just listen and you'll hear!"
"You're not going to scaper me." ( from Boston Legal last week)
scaper by Elaine Pedigo April 22, 2006