- Literally
- Worthless children, a wanton wife, a quarrelsome neighbour, a shaming mother-in-law, an envious brother, a grasping friend, a cheating guru, a miserly master, a thieving servant — put the lot of them in the water.
- What it means
- The compiler's list of what to be rid of, with no ceremony about it.
Heard it differently, or know we've got the sense wrong? Tell us — that is exactly the kind of correction this needs.