She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime.

Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt.

1983 December, ‘Look before you leap into a commodity pool’, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 74,
In the high-risk world of futures contracts, pooling the risks could be just another way to take a bath.

The lenders took a bath because they had to honor fixed rate loans of 5 to 10% while borrowing money at 15 to 20% to fund them.

The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

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