Meaning of take a bath | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bathe.
2. To lose a large amount of money in an investment.
   idiomatic

Examples

“She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime.”

“Take a bath with fragrant herbs.”

“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.”

“The lenders took a bath because they had to honor fixed rate loans of 5 to 10% while borrowing money at 15 to 20% to fund them.”

“The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.”

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