bath Идиома

take a bath

come to financial ruin She took a bath on the stock market last year and is afraid to invest in stocks now.

throw the baby out with the bath water

throw away something good with the waste, discard everything Keep the good subjects when you revise the course. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!

throw the baby out with the bathwater

reject all of something because part of it is faulty When they decided to get rid of all of the computers because one was broken it was like throwing the baby out with the bath water. They only needed one new computer.

bathers

swimming/bathing costume [Aust./N.Z.]

go to the bathroom

Idiom(s): go to the bathroom (2)

Theme: BATHROOM

2. to go into a rest room, bathroom, or toilet.
• BILL: Where is Bob? JANE: He went to the bathroom.
• John went to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

Early bath

(UK) If someone has or goes for an early bath, they quit or lose their job or position earlier than expected because things have gone wrong.

sponge bath|bath|sponge

n. A bath with a cloth or sponge and a little water. During the drought the family had only sponge baths. The family took sponge baths because they had no bathtub.

take a bath|bath|take

v. phr., informal To come to financial ruin. Boy, did we ever take a bath on that merger with Brown & Brown, Inc.

throw the baby out with the bath|baby|bath|bathwat

v. phr. To reject all of something because part is faulty. God knows that there are weaknesses in the program, but if they act too hastily they may cause the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater.

bath

bath
see take a bath; throw out the baby with the bath water.

bathroom

bathroom
go to the bathroom
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Informal to urinate or defecate

throw out the baby with the bath water

throw out the baby with the bath water
Discard something valuable along with something not wanted. For example, I know you don't approve of that one item in the bill but we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bath water by voting the bill down. This expression, with its vivid image of a baby being tossed out with a stream of dirty water, is probably translated from a German proverb, Das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten (“Pour the baby out with the bath”). It was first recorded in English in 1853 by Thomas Carlyle, who translated many works from German.