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Word History and Origins
Origin of bathwater1
Idioms and Phrases
- throw out the baby with the bathwater, to eliminate or reject the good along with the bad.
Example Sentences
It would be a tragedy to throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater given that we are faced with an opportunity to actually make work better — for everyone.
"The old way of doing things gave us a lot of success, so you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There will be significant change, but not the radical change that Mr Musk and Mr Isaacman want to see," argues Prof Logsdon.
Malcolm: I really respect the text and wanted the spirit of that to be there, so I wasn’t throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
"We should not throw the baby out with the bathwater, as the underlying growth story remains intact," he said at a recent meeting.
Hey, Hollywood, don’t throw the baby, or at least the 8-year-old, out with the bathwater.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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