buttare il bambino con l'acqua sporca
Italian
Verb
buttare il bambino con l' acqua sporca
- to throw the baby out with the bathwater
- (idiomatic) To discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.
- 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.
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