Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

baby and bathwater

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.29 in modern English

Syllables: baby and -bath-wa-ter
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From the phrase throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Questions

What does baby and bathwater mean?: Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.
Where does baby and bathwater come from?: From the phrase throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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