saw the baby in half
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.85 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
1
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "Thus OKW sawed the baby in half, giving to the Army a landing force which it thought inadequate, and saddling the Navy with a transport responsibility which it thought excessively dangerous."
- "The Khrushchev government did not believe them and, after much hemming and hawing, settled on a particularly cruel way of sawing the baby in half: […]"