The combination of desirable or valuable elements with undesirable ones, often used to warn against discarding the valuable part when attempting to remove the undesirable.
2.
Global Englishinformal
Used as a shorthand reference to the proverb 'to throw the baby out with the bathwater,' conveying the same caution against losing the good while eliminating the bad.
3.
Global Englishneutral
A situation in which an excessive or careless corrective action removes or destroys something useful along with what is unwanted.