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Mother sent back her bath-water twice last night, complaining that it was not hot enough.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I have decided to take him on, provided he is willing to bring in his own bath-water and feed the goats.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Mother sent back her bath-water twice last night, complaining that it was not hot enough.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I have decided to take him on, provided he is willing to bring in his own bath-water and feed the goats.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Alternately, the municiple water services which are providing lawn-water, dish-water, bath-water, and clothes-washing-water at the CORRECT price are spending too much on bringing that product up to an excessively high quality standard -- drinkable.
Economics of Water, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I always look for ways not to throw out the baby with the bath-water which we seem to have done
A Giant Leap For Personkind ? Newmania 2008
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This was clearly a case of mob mentality, of people throwing out the baby with the bath-water.
From Dark Star to Halloween: A Look at the Selected Films of Horror Maestro John Carpenter 2010
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Some many babies thrown out with the bath-water, so much blood-soaked, pulp non-fiction ...
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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The baby has now long been thrown out with the bath-water, in terms of maturely - in our world come of age - grappling with and coming to terms with the "spiritual" (i.e. ontological) underpinnings of social/political comity and foundational conceptions in general.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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It's because certain behaviors work, and others don't, and we have to be careful to throw the baby out with the bath-water when we seek adulthood, or social change.
Archive 2009-01-01 Steven Barnes 2009
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