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take a bath
Idioms and Phrases
Experience serious financial loss, as in The company took a bath investing in that new product . This idiom, which originated in gambling, transfers washing oneself in a bathtub to being 鈥渃leaned out鈥 financially. [ Slang ; first half of 1900s]Example Sentences
Every day the baby and I take a bath together.
West was 14 years older as Walton entered UCLA, one a proven superstar and the other a very promising but unproven freshman, one an adult who took pride in dressing well and the other a teenager so unkempt, to the point of slobbish, that West wanted to tell him to take a bath.
鈥淚t鈥檚 very difficult when you get up in the morning and you can鈥檛 take a bath, you can鈥檛 shower,鈥 Mack Williams, 59, said as he picked up bottled water from a county distribution site.
The kids were especially amazed to hear how he had to lug water from the creek just to wash dishes or take a bath.
鈥淲hen I would go take a bath, I would have to call my child to come in and sit next to me in the bath because I鈥檓 scared.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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