literally meaning to burn both jade and stone; used as an idiom to describe the destruction of both the good and the bad, or the noble and the wicked, in a single catastrophe

Literally "jade and stone not separated"; to fail to discriminate between the good and the bad or the noble and the wicked.the common.

To use a sacred tripod as a cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone; to waste precious materials or cast pearls before swine.