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• shower — shower1 showerless, adj. showerlike, adj. /show euhr/, n. 1. a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow. 2. Also called shower bath. a bath in which water is sprayed on the body, usually from an overhead perforated nozzle (showerhead). 3 …   Universalium

• 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./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• 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./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• Shower — A shower (also called shower bath) is a booth for washing, usually in a bathroom, having an overhead nozzle that sprays water down on the body. A full bathroom may include a shower stall, whereas a half bathroom will not. History The practice of… …   Wikipedia

• shower — I n. bath using an overhead spray 1) to have (BE), take a shower short period of rain brief downpour 2) a heavy; light shower 3) April; passing; scattered showers 4) a meteor; rain; thunder shower 5) a sun shower (esp. AE) ( rain that falls while …   Combinatory dictionary

• shower — 01. I d better take a [shower] before we go. I m all sweaty from playing tennis. 02. Don t use up all the hot water when you take a [shower]! I want to have one too. 03. She threw her coat on the bed and went into the bathroom to take a [shower] …   Grammatical examples in English

• bath — [[t]bɑ͟ːθ, bæ̱θ[/t]] ♦♦♦ baths, bathing, bathed (When the form baths is the plural of the noun it is pronounced [[t]bɑ͟ːðz[/t]]u> or [[t]bæ̱θs[/t]]u> in British English, and [[t]bæ̱ðz[/t]]u> in American English. When it is used in the… …   English dictionary

• shower — /ˈʃaʊə / (say showuh) noun 1. a brief fall of rain, hail, sleet or snow. 2. a similar fall, as of sparks or bullets. 3. a large supply or quantity: a shower of questions. 4. a party to which people bring presents for a specified recipient. See… …  

• Shower (film) — Infobox Film name = Shower image size = caption = DVD cover of Shower director = Zhang Yang producer = Peter Loehr Imar Film writer = Zhang Yang Liu Fendou Huo Xin Diao Yi nan Cai Shangjun starring = Zhu Xu Pu Cunxin Jiang Wu music = Ye Xiaogang… …   Wikipedia

• take — verb ADVERB ▪ well ▪ badly ▪ She took the news of her father s death very badly. ▪ seriously ▪ I wanted to be taken seriously as an artist …   Collocations dictionary

• take a bath —    to suffer a heavy financial loss    Your boat is capsized:     His old man took a bath in real estate about ten years ago, got in the shower, and emptied his brains out with a .45. (Diehl, 1978) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms