Definition
Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.
Origins
From the phrase throw the baby out with the bathwater.
In Context
- "From this perspective, the limits of the radical feminist worldview seemed increasingly frustrating to the feminist radicals. In some cases, this led to a baby and bathwater sort of reaction, where even the important lessons of consciousness raising were dismissed as middle-class diversions."