throw the baby out with the bathwater

baby and bathwater

Used in reference to an error in which something valuable is discarded in the process of removing or rejecting something unwanted.

baby elephant in the room

An obvious but mostly inconsequential issue.

baby step

A small effort made towards the completion of a much larger task.

baby up

To treat as a baby.

Basin of gravy

[Cockney slang]baby

Suggestive of the softness of the foods on which babies are fed.

be left holding the baby

To be left with the responsibility of resolving a problem.

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.

leave someone holding the baby

To abandon someone and put them in a position where they must take the responsibility or blame.