het kind met het badwater weggooien

English translation: to throw the baby out with the bathwater

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Dutch term or phrase:het kind met het badwater weggooien
English translation:to throw the baby out with the bathwater
Entered by: Antoinette Verburg

10:33 Oct 11, 2004
Dutch to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Dutch term or phrase: het kind met het badwater weggooien
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Antoinette Verburg
Netherlands
Local time: 01:47
to throw out the baby with the bath water
Explanation:
See http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html for an interesting article about this phrase.
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vixen
Greece
Local time: 02:47
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Hartelijk dank, Vixen en anderen!
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4 +5to throw out the baby with the bath water
vixen


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
to throw out the baby with the bath water


Explanation:
See http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,1,1,95/BABY.html for an interesting article about this phrase.

vixen
Greece
Local time: 02:47
Native speaker of: Dutch
Grading comment
Hartelijk dank, Vixen en anderen!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  hirselina: Isn't it "bathwater"?
19 mins
  -> I agree with Allison that both spelling variants are used.

agree  AllisonK (X): I think both are used ("bath water" and "bathwater") - interesting link by the way!
53 mins
  -> Thanks, Allison

agree  Chris Hopley: Interesting link, vixen! And fwiw, "to throw the baby out with the bath water" would be a more natural word order for spoken English IMO.
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Chris. You're right. Both variants are used, but yours is more common.

agree  Arsen Nazarian
2 hrs

agree  Mirjam Bonne-Nollen
4 hrs
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