bathwater

“We didn’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, regardless of how dirty it might be,” says Caldwell Pinckney, a Berkeley County councilman.

However, this doesn’t mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater, it just means we might benefit from thinking of keywords more as topics or categories than intent-revealing silver bullets.

So, we can say you don’t have to throw the baby out with the bathwater, but there’s a clear problem that everyone should acknowledge, and we shouldn’t pretend like there’s not a meaningful problem and pattern.

The first, suggested by the states and business interests challenging the law, takes the baby-with-the-bathwater approach.

Will there be some babies thrown out with the bathwater, if you will?

It's also amazing that this dressed-up baby is getting thrown out with its bergamot-scented bathwater.

You're never going to be sick in this bit of bathwater, Miss Twinkler?