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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Prov. Do not discard something valuable in your eagerness to get rid of some useless thing associated with it. Jill: As long as I'm selling all the books Grandpa had, I might s well sell the bookcases, too. Jane: Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You can use the bookcases for something else.
See also: baby, out, throw


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For example, the causation responses for the proverb Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater mostly focused on the childminder's impatience, absentmindedness, negligence and carelessness, which, when tallied across all the participants, accounted for 79% of the responses.
 
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