bathwater

[bath-waw-ter, -wot-er, bahth-]

noun

Idioms

throw out the baby with the bathwater, to eliminate or reject the good along with the bad.

Origin of bathwater

First recorded in 1910–15; bath¹ + water

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Will there be some babies thrown out with the bathwater, if you will?
Don't Count Out Moderate Republicans Yet
Samuel P. Jacobs
September 16, 2010

You're never going to be sick in this bit of bathwater, Miss Twinkler?
Christopher and Columbus
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim