throw the baby out with the bathwater

短语

不分精华糟粕全盘否定

发音

UK /θɹəʊ ðə ˈbeɪbi aʊt wɪð ðə ˈbɑːθwɔːtə(ɹ)/
AU
US /θɹoʊ ðə ˈbeɪbi aʊt wɪθ ðə ˈbæθwɔtɚ/

词形变化

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别名

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To discard, inadvertently or through overzealousness, something valuable or essential ("the baby") in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted or undesirable ("the bathwater").

    习语

    They cancelled the entire project because the new management didn't like the prototype, but I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater.

词源

Calque of German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten, a proverb first recorded by Thomas Murner in his satire Narrenbeschwörung (1512). First appeared in English when Thomas Carlyle translated it in an 1849 essay on slavery.

来源：wiktionary