to get an early bath
- idiom
- Slang
:
ser despedido
- He got an early bath after making a serious mistake.
Examples
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After his mistake during the match, the coach told him to get an early bath.
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The manager had to get an early bath following the failed project.
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If you keep breaking the rules, you'll soon get an early bath.
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Don't get an early bath just because you made a mistake!
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After making a critical error, the player was told to get an early bath and leave the game.
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If he doesn't improve his performance soon, he will get an early bath from the team.
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The employee had to get an early bath after the project failed to meet expectations.
Synonyms
15
5.8
Force someone to leave a job or organization suddenly
8
6.5
To make someone leave quickly to show they are not wanted
2
4.8
Lose your job because your employer fires you
2
9.5
A quick, rude way to make someone leave
1
4.0
To force someone to leave a place, group or job
1
8.6
Lose your job, often suddenly
1
7.4
Being sent out of a game or activity before it ends as punishment
To stop employing someone, often suddenly as punishment
Antonyms
How Forced
- UK
2
4.8
- Slang
148
3.3
- Formal
533
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to be forced to leave or resign early' is not derivable from the literal meanings of 'get', 'an', 'early', and 'bath'—a B1 learner would most likely interpret this as taking a bath early. This is an idiomatic, culture-specific euphemism (often British) where 'bath' does not transparently signal dismissal, so the overall meaning is unpredictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Get an early bath may come from sports where a player who made a big mistake was sent to take a bath before the game finished, so he left early. That's why it now means 'to be forced to leave or resign early' after a failure.