Vocabulary

Idioms

Medium

The manager warned the team not to ________ by discarding useful data while trying to simplify the report.

for the birds

bark up the wrong tree

throw the baby out with the bathwater

chew the fat

✅ Correct Option: 3

'Throw the baby out with the bathwater' means to discard something valuable along with the unwanted. Losing useful data while simplifying fits perfectly. The other idioms mean worthlessness, mistaken pursuit, and idle chatting.

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