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Apple cobra Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Pour out

I found this sentence when looking phrasal verbs up:

"One should not pour the baby out with the bathwater."

What's the meaning of "pour out" in that sentence?

  

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The idiom is actually " throw the baby out with the bath water". org/dictionary/english/throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater You could have looked this up for yourself.

  • The idiom is actually " throw the baby out with the bath water".
  • org/dictionary/english/throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater You could have looked this up for yourself.
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The idiom is actually "throw the baby out with the bath water".

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater

You could have looked this up for yourself.

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