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Baby and bathwater

Posted by DH on December 11, 2004

In Reply to: Baby and bathwater posted by Jose Carlos on December 10, 2004

: Hi again:

: Probably this cliche - don't throw the baby out with the bathwater - has already been on the spotlight here, but I simply wonder what origin it has and what the exact meaning is. Can you give an actual example of usage?

: Thanks,

: Jose Carlos

Jose: If you use Google, go to Advanced Search and enter ~ in the "exact phrase" box. You shoud get thousands of examples

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