take a bath

idiomatic phrase

informal
: to suffer a heavy financial loss
take a bath on an investment
ESPN also is expected to take a bath in the first year of its new, four-year, $450 million NFL football package … . Combined baseball and NFL losses may eat up as much as $60 million this year alone.John Steinbreder
Apollo Global Management and TPG, the two private equity giants in the 2008 leveraged buyout of Caesars, took a bath on the company before exiting the investment several months ago.Christopher Palmeri

Examples of take a bath in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Do not submerge the incision site in water (e.g., swimming, taking a bath). Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024 In the excerpt below, Thibault takes a bath and struggles to draft a text message to his girlfriend who is away on a work trip. Olivier Schrauwen, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024 Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams become good friends and to relax from long days of filming Sansa and Arya Stark, they would get stoned and take a bath. Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024 With rates above 6% for the past two years, homeowners haven't been able to upsize or downsize without taking a bath — and that reluctance to sell has further locked up Utah's already-scarce housing supply. Erin Alberty, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for take a bath 

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Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of take a bath was in 1935

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“Take a bath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/take%20a%20bath. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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