Usually means: Discard valuable alongside the worthless.
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  1. throw the baby out with the bath water: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. throw the baby out with the bath water: Collins English Dictionary
  3. throw the baby out with the bath-water: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. throw the baby out with the bath water: Wiktionary
  5. throw the baby out with the bath water: Dictionary.com
  6. throw the baby out with the bath water: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. throw the baby out with the bath water: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Throw the baby out with the bath water)

verb:  Alternative form of throw the baby out with the bathwater [(idiomatic) To discard, especially inadvertently, something valuable while in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.]

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