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Meaning of 糟糠

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
zāo kāng
chaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor); (fig.) rubbish; junk; (abbr. for 糟糠妻 ) wife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
Example Sentences
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Mr Jobs had an uncanny knack of winnowing out the wheat from the mountains of chaff.
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Zhao's virtuousness depends on face-painting and sculpting; her first appearance in the movie looked quite embarrassed. And the biggest failure is Chen Kun's acting as Wang.
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"This malware thing is so bad, " he said in a speech at the Computer History Museum here. "Now that's the one that has us really needing to jump in.
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She could see the lines, and at the end of them the trembling shadows of Bert, or Mike, or Stan, spending an idle Sunday away from the wife with a brolly and a can of beer.