Throw out the child along with the bath. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Throw out the child along with the bath

Martin Luther

Phraseologism: Throw out the child along with the bath.

Meaning: Rejecting, discarding details, losing the essence of something (bookish or publicly disapproved).

Origin: The expression is a tracing paper from the German das Kind mit dem Bade ausschutten, where it has been known for a long time, and was fixed in the literary language thanks to its use by M. Luther (1483-1546): "The child should not be thrown out of the bath with water."

Random phraseology:

If I knew my youth, if old age could.

Meaning:

Regret about the inability to combine the energy of the young and the experience of the elderly, about the disdainful attitude of young people to the advice of elders.

Origin:

From French: Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. From the epigram (No. 191) of the French writer and polyglot philologist Henri Etienne (1531-1598), which was published in his collection Les Premices (1594). A poetic version of this expression is known, which belongs to the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov (b. 1923): "Ah, if only we, as young people, could, // Ah, if they, like old ones, knew."

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