Stop babying up your little brother.
baby up
idiomTo treat as a baby.
He is a grown man now, so you should stop babying up your son.
Despite his professional success, his mother continued to baby up her adult child, much to his growing frustration.
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baby and bathwater
Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.
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baby elephant in the room
An obvious but mostly inconsequential issue.
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baby step
A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task.
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basin of gravy
[Cockney slang]baby
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be left holding the baby
To be left with the responsibility of resolving a problem.
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food baby
A protruding belly resulting from the consumption of a large quantity of food; the contents of one's digestive system causing the protrusion.
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leave someone holding the baby
To abandon someone and put them in a position where they must take the responsibility or blame.
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make baby Jesus cry
To provoke a negative reaction due to being offensive, unpleasant, immoral, etc.