weed out | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)Toremove(unwantedelements) from agroup.Toweed outproblem users, watch new people's behavior.1557February 13 (Gregorian calendar),Thomas Tusser,A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London:[…]Richard Tottel,→OCLC; republished London:[…]Robert Triphook,[…], and William Sancho,[…],1810,→OCLC:In May get a weed-hook, a crotch and a glove,Andweed outsuch weeds, as the corn doth not love2023March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, inWomen's Health‎[1]:“I like the question, ‘Where can I take you/where will you take me on our first date?’ because that’s the point of the app and you’re already both attracted to each other. Itweeds outpeople who aren’t actually interested in meeting up and are using the app passively,” Hoggard Wagley says.

Examples:

EN: Well, we'll soon weed out his kind.
ES: Vaya pieza.
EN: We shall cut off heads ruthlessly to weed out the treason of the boyars to the very roots
ES: ¡Aplastaremos la sedición! Arrancaremos de raíz... la traición de los boyardos.
EN: You could help me weed out turnips tomorrow.
ES: Podrías ayudarme a quitar las malas hierbas de los nabos mañana.
EN: Someone has to weed out those who haven't got what it takes.
ES: Alguien tiene que quitar de en medio a los que no dan la talla.
EN: Nothing like hard cash on the line to weed out the ribbon clerks.
ES: Nada como arriesgar efectivo para deshacerse de los gallinas.
EN: Why don't you let me weed out the real morons?
ES: ¿Por qué no me dejas sacar a los idiotas?
EN: We have to weed out the Judas.
ES: La traidora debe ser castigada.
EN: Good, I'll weed out the roots
ES: Bien, al fin se acabará la mala cizaña.
EN: Do you ever take that smoldering weed out of your mouth?
ES: No te quitas nunca ese palo con humo de tu boca?
ES: ¿Alguna vez te quitas esa hierba humeante de la boca?
EN: - To weed out the weaklings
ES: - Deshacerse de los débiles.
EN: Charles promised to weed out suspected members of the Fifth Column.
ES: Charles prometió acabar con los miembros de la Disidencia.
EN: Our job in the tonsils is to weed out intruders, it's where we are most effective.
ES: Nuestra función en las amígdalas es de cortar el paso.
EN: My orders are to weed out non-hackers who do not pack the gear to be in my beloved Corps!
ES: ¡Y mis órdenes son acabar con los que no son capaces... de dar la talla en mi amado Cuerpo!
EN: There's lot's of good kids, we just have to weed out the bad.
ES: Sólo tenemos que librarnos de los malos.
EN: We just have to weed out the bad.
ES: Sólo tenemos que deshacernos de los malos.

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