Meaning of baby and bathwater | Babel Free

Definitions

Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.

attributive, idiomatic, often, plural, plural-only

Examples

“From this perspective, the limits of the radical feminist worldview seemed increasingly frustrating to the feminist radicals. In some cases, this led to a baby and bathwater sort of reaction, where even the important lessons of consciousness raising were dismissed as middle-class diversions.”

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