"take a bath" meaning in English

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      "form": "taking a bath",
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          "text": "She told the children to take a bath and wash off the mud and grime.",
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          "ref": "2009, Peter Sander, Jennifer Sander, 573 Ways to Save Money: Save the Cost of This Book Many Times Over in Less than a Day!, page 211:",
          "text": "Take a bath with fragrant herbs.",
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        "To bathe."
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        {
          "text": "Shareholders took a bath when the company went bankrupt."
        },
        {
          "text": "1983 December, ‘Look before you leap into a commodity pool’, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, page 74,\nIn the high-risk world of futures contracts, pooling the risks could be just another way to take a bath."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Burley, Money Secrets of the Rich: Learn the 7 Secrets to Financial Freedom, page 163:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, William J. O'Neil, How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, page 235:",
          "text": "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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      "glosses": [
        "To lose a large amount of money in an investment."
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        "(idiomatic) To lose a large amount of money in an investment."
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Burley, Money Secrets of the Rich: Learn the 7 Secrets to Financial Freedom, page 163:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, William J. O'Neil, How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times or Bad, page 235:",
          "text": "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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        "(idiomatic) To lose a large amount of money in an investment."
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      "word": "have a bath"
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