take a bath
Lose your shirt
Take a bath means to wash oneself in a bathtub filled with water, as opposed to taking a shower.
The phrase also has a figurative meaning in business and finance: to take a bath is to suffer a substantial financial loss.
We took a bath on that investment when the market crashed.
The idiom suggests being cleaned out—left with nothing.
- batheWash in water
- hot waterHeated liquid, or trouble
- warm soakImmersion in heated water
- soakSaturate with liquid
- latherFoamy soap bubbles
pamper · scrub · scrub down · wash · ablution · Epsom salts · rubber duck · indulge · cleanse · loofah · towel · financial loss · go bankrupt · bubble up · calm · candles · rinse · peacefulness
take a bathmake a killing
Achieve enormous financial success
clean up · hit the jackpot · strike it rich · make a fortune · turn a profit
take, bath, taken, taking, bathing, overtake, takes, undertaking, undertake