For example, following the technology boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, many investors, because of their huge losses, were said to have taken a bath.
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take a bath — {v. phr.}, {informal} To come to financial ruin. * /Boy, did we ever take a bath on that merger with Brown & Brown, Inc./ … Dictionary of American idioms
take a bath — {v. phr.}, {informal} To come to financial ruin. * /Boy, did we ever take a bath on that merger with Brown & Brown, Inc./ … Dictionary of American idioms
take a bath — ► take a bath informal suffer a heavy financial loss. Main Entry: ↑bath … English terms dictionary
take a bath — phrasal : to suffer a heavy financial loss * * * informal suffer a heavy financial loss * * * take a bath US informal : to lose a large amount of money in a business deal The movie studio took a bath on his last picture. see also ↑bath 1a (above) … Useful english dictionary
take a bath — To sustain a loss on either a speculation or an investment. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * take a bath INFORMAL ► to lose a lot of money as a result of a bad business deal or investment: »Unless the shares take a bath, they should soon be… … Financial and business terms
take a bath — verb a) To bathe. She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime. b) To lose a large amount of money in an investment. Take a bath with fragrant herbs … Wiktionary
take\ a\ bath — v. phr. informal To come to financial ruin. Boy, did we ever take a bath on that merger with Brown & Brown, Inc … Словарь американских идиом
take a bath — 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 … New idioms dictionary
take a bath (on something) — tv. to have large financial losses on an investment. □ Fred took a bath on that gold mining stock. □ The broker warned me that I might take a bath if I bought this stuff … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
take a bath — bathe, wash oneself in the bath; (Slang) suffer a financial loss … English contemporary dictionary
