baby and bathwater

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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
    — 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.

词源

From the phrase throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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