an early bath

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an early bath (British & Australian informal)

if you take an early bath, you are forced to stop doing an activity sooner than you intended to

Usage notes: This phrase is often used about sports such as football.

The spokesman took an early bath after a series of embarrassing and incorrect statements. And that's his second yellow card so it looks like an early bath for Taylor.

See also: bath, early

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