British & Australian, informal

if you take an early bath, you are forced to stop doing an activity sooner than you intended to.

The spokesman took an early bath after a series of embarrassing and incorrect statements.

And that's his second yellow card so it looks like an early bath for Taylor.

• say a lot about something
• say boo
• Say cheese!
• say enough is enough
• say goodbye to
• say goodbye to something
• say nothing of
• say nothing of something
• say piece
• say something to
• say something to yourself
• say that black is white
• say the least
• say the word
• say to
• say to yourself
• say uncle
• say when
• say your piece
• scale back
• scale back something
• scales fall from eyes.
• scales fall from someone's eyes.
• scale up
• scale up something