take a bath
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verb
- To bathe.
“She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime.”
“Take a bath with fragrant herbs.”
- To lose a large amount of money in an investment.
“Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt.”
“1983 December, ‘Look before you leap into a commodity pool’, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 74, In the high-risk world of futures contracts, pooling the risks could be just another way to take a bath.”