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Experience serious financial loss, as in The company took a bath investing in that new product . This idiom, which originated in gambling, transfers washing oneself in a bathtub to being “cleaned out” financially. [ Slang ; first half of 1900s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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