bathwater

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Examples

• “We didn’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, regardless of how dirty it might be,” says Caldwell Pinckney, a Berkeley County councilman.

• However, this doesn’t mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater, it just means we might benefit from thinking of keywords more as topics or categories than intent-revealing silver bullets.

• So, we can say you don’t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but there’s a clear problem that everyone should acknowledge, and we shouldn’t pretend like there’s not a meaningful problem and pattern.

• The first, suggested by the states and business interests challenging the law, takes the baby-with-the-bathwater approach.

• Will there be some babies thrown out with the bathwater, if you will?

• It's also amazing that this dressed-up baby is getting thrown out with its bergamot-scented bathwater.

• You're never going to be sick in this bit of bathwater, Miss Twinkler?