take a bath

idiomatic phrase

informal

: to suffer a heavy financial loss

take a bath on an investment

ESPN also is expected to take a bath in the first year of its new, four-year, $450 million NFL football package … . Combined baseball and NFL losses may eat up as much as $60 million this year alone.

John Steinbreder

Apollo Global Management and TPG, the two private equity giants in the 2008 leveraged buyout of Caesars, took a bath on the company before exiting the investment several months ago.

Christopher Palmeri

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

单词	take a bath
释义	take a bath idiomatic phrase informal : to suffer a heavy financial loss take a bath on an investment ESPN also is expected to take a bath in the first year of its new, four-year, $450 million NFL football package … . Combined baseball and NFL losses may eat up as much as $60 million this year alone. John Steinbreder Apollo Global Management and TPG, the two private equity giants in the 2008 leveraged buyout of Caesars, took a bath on the company before exiting the investment several months ago. Christopher Palmeri Word History First Known Use 1935, in the meaning defined above
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