throw the baby out with the bathwater

动词 v.
中文释义
英 /θɹəʊ ðə ˈbeɪbi aʊt wɪð ðə ˈbɑːθwɔːtə(ɹ)/    美 /θɹoʊ ðə ˈbeɪbi aʊt wɪθ ðə ˈbæθwɔtɚ/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To discard, inadvertently or through overzealousness, something valuable or essential ("the baby") in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted or undesirable ("the bathwater"). idiomatic
    — They cancelled the entire project because the new management didn't like the prototype, but I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater.

词形变化

throws the baby out with the bathwater present,singular,third-person throwing the baby out with the bathwater participle,present threw the baby out with the bathwater past thrown the baby out with the bathwater participle,past throw the baby out with the bath water alternative throw out the baby with the bathwater alternative throw out the baby with the bath water alternative

词源

Calque of German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten, a proverb first recorded by Thomas Murner in his satire Narrenbeschwörung (1512). First appeared in English when Thomas Carlyle translated it in an essay on slavery (1849).
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