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Femmewench · 09-01-2017, 12:40 PM

I love discovering the origin of phrases we use today with absolutely no idea of why they came about.

"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." always intrigued me since I could attribute that to nothing within my own experience or anything I'd read.

I love Lucy Worsley (check her out on YouTube) because I get answers on things like this.

When baths were a weekly thing, the order of bathing was father, mother, eldest child down to youngest child. They were all bathing in the same water, so by the time it was the baby's turn the water might well have been dark enough that you could throw the bathwater out not having seen the baby was still in it.

Anyone else grateful for modern plumbing?

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