bath (redirected from takes a bath)

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. 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: early

throw the baby out with the bath water

to get rid of the good parts as well as the bad parts of something when you are trying to improve it. I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bath water. There are some good features of the present system that I think we should retain.

See also: baby, throw, water

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take a (financial) bath

to lose money on an investment. Investors took a bath when they had to resell the bonds at lower prices than they had paid.

See also: take

throw out the baby with the bath water

to lose the good parts when you get rid of the bad parts of something. You can't close the airport because one airline has problems — that's just throwing out the baby with the bath water.

See also: baby, throw, water