Everyone knows that Bath is a city in England where the rich and pampered used to 'take the waters', whatever that meant. I've been to Bath and it has lots of terrace houses built in a crescent shape.
I've been to the baths, too, which is another use of the word bath, a place where you clean yourself, or just soak away the troubles of the day, usually with a glass or three of champagne.
Apparently, the Bath baths have been there since roman times, and having been there and seen how old they look, I can attest to that fact.
We had a bath before we had a shower, and these days, a bathtub is usually a garden bed full of flowers rather hand a body.
Being given a bath sometimes means that you were comprehensively beaten in a game, like football.
Throwing the baby out with the bath water, a rather quaint expression means nothing like it literally does but describes a wife or husband cleaning up a spouse's space without due regard to what she or he might want to keep, that is throw everything out.
If you take a bath, yes, you might get wet, but in another sense, it might be when you take a large hit financially. And, these days, it doesn't take much for super funds to suddenly have negative growth.
A bathhouse could be a place where there might be a swimming pool, not just baths, where people gather. A notable one was seen in the movie 'Gorky Park'.
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