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throw out the baby with the bathwater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables
throw out the baby with- the -bath-wa-ter
IPA
64
Scrabble Score
31
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Inflected Forms

throws out the baby with the bathwater (present, singular) throwing out the baby with the bathwater (participle, present) threw out the baby with the bathwater (past) thrown out the baby with the bathwater (participle, past)

Questions

What does throw out the baby with the bathwater mean?
Alternative form of throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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