"saw the baby in half" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "sawing the baby in half",
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      "form": "sawed the baby in half",
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      "form": "sawed the baby in half",
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      "expansion": "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)",
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          "ref": "1967, Telford Taylor, The breaking wave: the Second World War in the summer of 1940:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2015, Masha Gessen, The Tsarnaev Brothers: the road to a modern tragedy:",
          "text": "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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        "Synonym of split the baby"
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  "word": "saw the baby in half"
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      "form": "saws the baby in half",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sawing the baby in half",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sawed the baby in half",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sawed the baby in half",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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          "ref": "1967, Telford Taylor, The breaking wave: the Second World War in the summer of 1940:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Masha Gessen, The Tsarnaev Brothers: the road to a modern tragedy:",
          "text": "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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        }
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