saw the baby in half

English

Verb

saw the baby in half (third-person singular simple present saws the baby in half, present participle sawing the baby in half, simple past and past participle sawed the baby in half)

  1. Synonym of split the baby
    • 1967, Telford Taylor, The breaking wave: the Second World War in the summer of 1940:
      Thus OKW sawed the baby in half, giving to the Army a landing force which it thought inadequate, and saddling the Navy with a transport responsibility which it thought excessively dangerous.
    • 2015, Masha Gessen, The Tsarnaev Brothers: the road to a modern tragedy:
      The Khrushchev government did not believe them and, after much hemming and hawing, settled on a particularly cruel way of sawing the baby in half: […]
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