saw the baby in half
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]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)
- 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: […]