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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Well, imagine my surprise when I saw the March-April 2006 issue at the library, with articles on safe baby products and whole foods ("Baby and the Bathwater," "School Food Renaissance"). One day, a nurse's aide started his bathwater, checked the temperature with her hand, and went to get him. If so, he owes his readers a fuller account of how his brand of civic republicanism can avoid throwing out the baby of liberty along with the bathwater of moral vacuity. |
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