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Meaning of saw the baby in half | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

Synonym of split the baby.

Examples

“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: […]”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

saw the back of saw the dark side of the moon saw the day saw the elephant saw the error of one's ways saw the forest for the trees