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take a bath



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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 “cleaned out†financially. [ Slang ; first half of 1900s]
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Example Sentences

Every day the baby and I take a bath together.

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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.

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“It’s very difficult when you get up in the morning and you can’t take a bath, you can’t shower,†Mack Williams, 59, said as he picked up bottled water from a county distribution site.

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The kids were especially amazed to hear how he had to lug water from the creek just to wash dishes or take a bath.

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“When 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’m scared.â€

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