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

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And those shorts, who Trump Media executives have accused of manipulating the company's stock, could take a bath if Trump wins next week, according to S3. —

Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Oct. 2024 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. —

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