buttare il bambino con l'acqua sporca

Italian

Verb

buttàre il bambino con l'acqua sporca (first-person singular present bùtto il bambino con l'acqua sporca, first-person singular past historic buttài il bambino con l'acqua sporca, past participle buttàto il bambino con l'acqua sporca, auxiliary avére)

  1. to throw the baby out with the bathwater
  2. (idiomatic) to discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted
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