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- noun The
water used in abath (bathtub ).
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Examples
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Below them, the used bathwater from the public baths ran down a slight incline to carry away the waste.
The (Lesser) Rules of Civilization | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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Throwing the baby out with the bathwater is not the solution, nor is making the perfect the enemy of the good.
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Middle (baby in bathwater) courtesy puebloapueblo. org.
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006
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Before-and-after analyses of the footbath by the Medical Toxicology Unit, New Cross, confirmed that the brown stuff that appears in the bathwater is iron-based, and that the bathwater showed no sign of the urea and creatinine ( "probably the smallest molecules - call them 'toxins' if you like - that your body gets rid of, in places like urine and sweat") that you'd expect if any dialysis were happening.
Archive 2004-09-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Before-and-after analyses of the footbath by the Medical Toxicology Unit, New Cross, confirmed that the brown stuff that appears in the bathwater is iron-based, and that the bathwater showed no sign of the urea and creatinine ( "probably the smallest molecules - call them 'toxins' if you like - that your body gets rid of, in places like urine and sweat") that you'd expect if any dialysis were happening.
Bad Science and rusty footbath revisionism Ray Girvan 2004
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Before-and-after analyses of the footbath by the Medical Toxicology Unit, New Cross, confirmed that the brown stuff that appears in the bathwater is iron-based, and that the bathwater showed no sign of urea or creatinine (the smallest organic molecules excreted by the body via urine and sweat - "call them 'toxins', if you like") that you'd expect if any dialysis were happening.
Dodgy detox Ray Girvan 2004
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Before-and-after analyses of the footbath by the Medical Toxicology Unit, New Cross, confirmed that the brown stuff that appears in the bathwater is iron-based, and that the bathwater showed no sign of urea or creatinine (the smallest organic molecules excreted by the body via urine and sweat - "call them 'toxins', if you like") that you'd expect if any dialysis were happening.
Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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But I'm not sure that chucking the baby out with the bathwater is the solution.
It's Gender Ambiguous Liturgy Dude! PeaceBang 2006
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On the plus side, I can now sometimes tell an arm from a leg when it comes smacking into my ribs, and the baby can already make wavelets in the bathwater, which is amusing.
Not as useless as I thought I was ailbhe 2004
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Adding herbs to the bathwater is an effective way of making the therapeutic elements available to the body.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
yarb commented on the word bathwater
Upstream a metre and downstream a metre, trickling sound registers in each ear, an alto tinkling, a basso gurgling, the upper notes resembling skylark song, the lower resembling bathwater unplugged, concurrently continuously varying.
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
August 2, 2008