You can't close the airport because one airline has problems — that's just throwing out the baby with the bath water.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
Throw out the baby with the bath water — is an idiomatic expression used to suggest an avoidable error in which something good is eliminated when trying to get rid of something bad,[1] or in other words, rejecting the essential along with the inessential.[2] A slightly different… … Wikipedia
throw the baby out with the bath water — If you get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things, you throw the baby out with the bath water … The small dictionary of idiomes
throw the baby out with the bath water — throw away something good with the waste, discard everything Keep the good subjects when you revise the course. Don t throw the baby out with the bath water! … English idioms
throw the baby out with the bath water — to get rid of the good parts as well as the bad parts of something when you are trying to improve it. I don t think we should throw the baby out with the bath water. There are some good features of the present system that I think we should retain … New idioms dictionary
throw the baby out with the bath water — If you get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things, you throw the baby out with the bath water. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Throw the baby out with the bath-water — If you get rid of useful things when discarding inessential things, you throw the baby out with the bath water … Dictionary of English idioms
bath water — also bathwater N UNCOUNT Your bath water is the water in which you sit or lie when you have a bath. to throw the baby out with the bath water → see baby He has to share his bath water with the other three children in the family … English dictionary
bath·water — /ˈbæθˌwɑːtɚ, Brit ˈbɑːθˌwɔːtə/ noun [noncount] : water used for a bath throw out the baby with the bathwater see ↑baby, 1 … Useful english dictionary
throw — throw1 W1S1 [θrəu US θrou] v past tense threw [θru:] past participle thrown [θrəun US θroun] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(throw a ball/stone etc)¦ 2¦(put something carelessly)¦ 3¦(push roughly/violently)¦ 4¦(make somebody fall)¦ 5¦(move hands/head etc)¦ 6¦(confuse … Dictionary of contemporary English
throw — [[t]θro͟ʊ[/t]] ♦♦ throws, throwing, threw, thrown 1) VERB When you throw an object that you are holding, you move your hand or arm quickly and let go of the object, so that it moves through the air. [V n prep/adv] He spent hours throwing a tennis … English dictionary
