Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
baby out with the bathwater
Portuguese translation:
descartou
English term
Brazil
Translating with soul
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian) 
, Italian (Variant: Standard-Italy)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Italian to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, and 2 more.
baby out with the bathwater
A comunidade produziu e eficazmente descartou??
Toda ajuda será bem-vinda!!
Jun 20, 2009 14:17: Paula Mangia Garcia Terra changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/637664">Paula Mangia Garcia Terra's</a> old entry - "baby out with the bathwater"" to ""descartam tudo ""
Proposed translations
United States
Marlene Curtis
Native in: Portuguese , English
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
descartam tudo
to get rid of the good parts as well as the bad parts of something when you are trying to improve it I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bath water. There are some good features of the present system that I think we should retain
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/throw the baby out with ...
Electric Engineer/Military
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
agir precipadamente - ser imprevidente
Expressão idiomática
- throw the baby out with the bathwater : agir precipadamente - ser imprevidente
Brazil
LAW, Industrial Machinery, IT - 22yrs
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, French to Portuguese
descartaram a parte ruim e a parte boa
não seria interessante marcar que eles descartaram o que prestava e o que não prestava?
jogaram o que havia de ruim e bom
ou jogaram tudo indiscriminadamente
descartaram, se livraram do que era bom e do que era ruim
"jogaram fora a água suja junto com o bebê"
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Marcelo Lino
: Eu manteria a expressão literal (já a ouvi em português).
12 mins
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Grata!
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airmailrpl
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18 mins
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Grata!
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Isabel Maria Almeida
15 hrs
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Grata!
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José Henrique Moreira
19 hrs
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Grata!
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Portugal
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida 
30+ years translating EU documents
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Spanish to Portuguese, and 1 more.
deixar ir tudo por água abaixo
deitar tudo fora sem aproveitar o que há de bom
Portugal
Accuracy & Reliability of 30+ years
Native in: English , Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, French to Portuguese
.. e não aproveitaram nada
Brazil
Marketing and Research Specialist
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
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