take a bath

take a bath
take a shower & take a bath
to bathe. •

I take a shower every morning.

John takes a hot bath to relax.

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{v. phr.}, {informal} To come to financial ruin. * /Boy, did we ever take a bath on that merger with Brown & Brown, Inc./

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