heittää lapsi pois pesuveden mukana

Finnish

Alternative forms

• heittää lapsi pesuveden mukana

Verb

heittää lapsi pois pesuveden mukana

1. (figuratively) to throw out the baby with the bathwater

Conjugation

• See heittää.
• lapsi is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.