bathwater

American  

[bath-waw-ter, -wot-er, bahth-] / ˈbæθˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər, ˈbɑθ- /

noun

1. water for bathing: bath: bathe.

   He ran the bathwater while he shaved.

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idioms

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

Etymology

Origin of bathwater

First recorded in 1910–15; bath ¹ + water

Example Sentences

There was a whole floor for the private use of the lord and lady of the house, with spacious bedchambers, dressing rooms, and the most newfangled lavatories imaginable, including actual flush toilets and slipper-shaped tubs that could heat up their own bathwater.

From Literature

With regard to AppFolio, investors have thrown the baby out with the bathwater.

From Barron's

“Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

From Los Angeles Times

The justice isn’t so much tossing the baby out with the bathwater as flagging that for the folks who don’t see the frogs, or the pot, or the roiling boil, it’s there; it simply hasn’t come for them yet.

From Slate

But now, they seem to be throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

From Slate