Meanings
present singular third person saws the baby in half · participle present sawing the baby in half · participle past sawed the baby in half · past sawed the baby in half
- Synonym of split the baby.
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: […]
2015, Masha Gessen, The Tsarnaev Brothers: the road to a modern tragedy1 more example
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.
1967, Telford Taylor, The breaking wave: the Second World War in the summer of 1940Synonyms: split the baby
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of split the baby.
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saw the baby in half. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saw%20the%20baby%20in%20half
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