English-Danish translations for throw the baby out with the bathwater

• kaste barnet ud med badevandet
  Jeg beder Dem om ikke at kaste barnet ud med badevandet! Let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater!
  Vi skal ikke kaste barnet ud med badevandet. We must not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
  Det ville være at kaste barnet ud med badevandet. That would be to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
• smide barnet ud med badevandet
  Alligevel betyder dette ikke, at vi skal smide barnet ud med badevandet. Yet this does not mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
  Vi skal derfor passe på ikke at smide barnet ud med badevandet. We should therefore be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
  Men i denne forbindelse skal vi ikke smide barnet ud med badevandet. However, in this connection, we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Definition of throw the baby out with the bathwater

• To discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted

Examples

• They cancelled the entire project because the new management didnt like the prototype, but I think they threw the baby out with the bathwater.

Related words

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• throw off the trail
• throw a wrench into the works