baby and bathwater

Meaning: (idiomatic,oftenattributively)Used in reference to anerrorin which somethingvaluableisdiscardedin the process of removing or rejecting somethingunwanted.2012, Michael Staudenmaier,Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969–1986, Edinburgh:AK Press,→ISBN, page23:From this perspective, the limits of the radical feminist worldview seemed increasingly frustrating to the feminist radicals. In some cases, this led to ababy and bathwatersort of reaction, where even the important lessons of consciousness raising were dismissed as middle-class diversions.

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