Idiom
take a bath
Meaning
To lose a large amount of money in an investment.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He took a bath on his bad stock investment.”
“The company took a bath when the market crashed and they lost millions on their new project.”
“Investors who bought the property at the height of the bubble took a bath when prices plummeted shortly after the purchase.”
Examples
simple
“He took a bath on his bad stock investment.”
contextual
“The company took a bath when the market crashed and they lost millions on their new project.”
complex
“Investors who bought the property at the height of the bubble took a bath when prices plummeted shortly after the purchase.”
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