early bath

English

Etymology

From the belief that players bathe together after a match, so if a player gets sent off, he or she can get into the bath before the other players.

Pronunciation

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Noun

early bath (plural early baths)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Being shown a red card in soccer.
That was a horrible tackle, he can expect an early bath for that.

Further reading

“an early bath”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

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