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Alternative forms

• throw out the baby with the bathwater
• throw out the baby with the bath water
• throw the baby out with the bath water

Verb

throw the baby out with the bathwater ‎(third-person singular simple present throws the baby out with the bathwater, present participle throwing the baby out with the bathwater, simple past threw the baby out with the bathwater, past participle thrown the baby out with the bathwater)

1. (idiomatic) To discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.

   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.

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