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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.

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