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Ellen Cicely Wilkinson

(1891—1947)

The typical Englishman is a strong being who takes a cold bath in the morning and talks about it for the rest of the day.

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bath

[bath] See: [SPONGE BATH], [THROW THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

cold

[cold] See: [BLOOD RUNS COLD], [BLOW HOT AND COLD], [CATCH COLD] or [TAKE COLD], [IN COLD BLOOD], [OUT COLD], [OUT IN THE COLD], [PASS OUT] (2), [STONE-COLD], [STOP COLD], [THROW […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

take a bath

[take a bath] {v. phr.}, {informal} To come to financial ruin. * /Boy, did we ever take a bath on that merger with Brown & Brown, Inc./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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It takes about a week of treatment to cure a cold, but without treatment it takes about seven days. www.english-slang.com

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