英语词汇take a bath的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

take a bath. American slang meaning “to take a great finan- cial loss,” to lose everything or close to everything in a business venture. Someone who takes a bath financially is stripped of everything, as a person taking a bath is stripped of his clothes. The expression dates back only to the 1930s, when someone who took such a bath was said to be “in the tub.” More recently, take a bath has come to be applied to any complete failure. The older phrase take to the cleaners is similar but has the sense of fraudulent means being used to effect the loss.

词汇	take a bath
词源	take a bath. American slang meaning “to take a great finan- cial loss,” to lose everything or close to everything in a business venture. Someone who takes a bath financially is stripped of everything, as a person taking a bath is stripped of his clothes. The expression dates back only to the 1930s, when someone who took such a bath was said to be “in the tub.” More recently, take a bath has come to be applied to any complete failure. The older phrase take to the cleaners is similar but has the sense of fraudulent means being used to effect the loss.
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