Name: English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (96) Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bath Water
Uploaded: 2019-07-06T15:19:02.000Z
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P  and this is Proverbs 96. The proverb today is don't throw the baby

out with the bath water. Okay. Anyway,  let's take a look at the note here. If someone

throws the baby out with the bath water he or she discards something valuable

along with something undesirable. So while you're getting rid of something

undesirable,  you get rid of something good at the same time. All right. So let's

continue here. The proverb is German in origin and dates back to the early 1500s.

So it goes way back. It's been around a long time. Let's continue here. Some

people claim the origin of this proverb was when people shared bath water. So you

know going back in the early 1500s water was more scarce. So that's what they

think that that was the possibility and it was customary for the father to bathe

first and it went down in order to the baby,  one at a time. So you know the

father then the mother and then you know if there were other children in between

and finally it went down to the baby. By the time the baby was bathed the water was

so dirty that the baby may be unseen and possibly thrown out with the bath water.

However there are others who claim this is nonsense. It's a nonsense story. Maybe

this is not really true.  I don't know. In some ways maybe I hope it's not too.

Because you know,  usually you want to take care of the baby. You think the baby

might be more fragile or more susceptible to getting bacteria or

disease. So maybe you might not want to wash the baby last in the really dirty

muddy water. That may not really be a good idea. But , but who knows what they

did in the 1500s or 1600s. Maybe that's the way they thought. Okay. Anyway, Let's

continue here. The earliest cited reference So the first time they can

actually find this comes from Thomas Murner's  Narrenbeschworung , basically that's

in German which means appeal to fools from 1512. So that's the first, that's the

earliest they can go back to find it.  Let's just give one example of how we

may use it today. It is not necessary to cancel the project. There are still some

good parts of it that can be saved. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. So

that's typically how we might use it Anyway,  I hope you got it. I  hope you

enjoyed it. Thank you for your time. Bye- bye.