The expression “throwing the baby out with the bathwater” means not rejecting an entire concept if parts of it are good. Its origin is German, and it may have come from the unsanitary nature of baths in Europe before the 16th century. The expression encourages keeping the good parts of an idea or practice and […]
The phrase “throw the baby out with the bathwater” originated in Germany and warns against discarding the good along with the bad. It comes from a time when Europeans rarely bathed and the water became dirty, making it possible to lose a child in the murky water. The term reminds us to avoid hasty decisions […]
