to throw out the baby with the bath

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• Throw out the baby with the bath water — is an idiomatic expression used to suggest an avoidable error in which something good is eliminated when trying to get rid of something bad,[1] or in other words, rejecting the essential along with the inessential.[2] A slightly different… …   Wikipedia

• throw out the baby with the bath water — to lose the good parts when you get rid of the bad parts of something. You can t close the airport because one airline has problems that s just throwing out the baby with the bath water …   New idioms dictionary

• throw\ the\ baby\ out\ with\ the\ bath — • throw the baby out with the bath • throw the baby out with the bathwater v. phr. To reject all of something because part is faulty. God knows that there are weaknesses in the program, but if they act too hastily they may cause the baby to be… …   Словарь американских идиом

• throw the baby out with the bath water — If you get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things, you throw the baby out with the bath water …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• throw the baby out with the bath water — throw away something good with the waste, discard everything    Keep the good subjects when you revise the course. Don t throw the baby out with the bath water! …   English idioms

• throw the baby out with the bath water —    If you get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things, you throw the baby out with the bath water.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• throw the baby out with the bath water — to get rid of the good parts as well as the bad parts of something when you are trying to improve it. I don t think we should throw the baby out with the bath water. There are some good features of the present system that I think we should retain …   New idioms dictionary

• Throw the baby out with the bath-water —   If you get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things, you throw the baby out with the bath water …   Dictionary of English idioms

• throw the baby out with the bath (bathwater) — {v. phr.} To reject all of something because part is faulty. * /God knows that there are weaknesses in the program, but if they act too hastily they may cause the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• throw the baby out with the bath (bathwater) — {v. phr.} To reject all of something because part is faulty. * /God knows that there are weaknesses in the program, but if they act too hastily they may cause the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• bath·water — /ˈbæθˌwɑːtɚ, Brit ˈbɑːθˌwɔːtə/ noun [noncount] : water used for a bath throw out the baby with the bathwater see ↑baby, 1 …   Useful english dictionary