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

• heittää lapsi (pois) pesuveden mukana
• heittää lapsi pesuveden mukana
  Toisinaan pyrkimyksenä on myös selvästi heittää lapsi pesuveden mukana, kuten ekologista suunnittelua koskevan direktiivin tapauksessa. At times, there are also apparent attempts to throw the baby out with the bathwater, as in the case of the so-called Ecodesign Directive.
• heittää lapsi pois pesuveden mukana
  Muistutan teitä tästä, koska on aivan liian helppoa heittää lapsi pois pesuveden mukana. I am reminding you of this because it is all too easy to 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

• throw the book at
• throw the baby out with bathwater
• throw out the baby with the bathwater
• throw in the towel
• throw down the gauntlet
• throw a spanner in the works
• throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick
• throw off the trail
• throw a wrench into the works