Speakur

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throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables
throw-ing the baby out with- the -bath-wa-ter
IPA
68
Scrabble Score
34
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of throw the baby out with the bathwater

Questions

What does throwing the baby out with the bathwater mean?
present participle and gerund of throw the baby out with the bathwater

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