Bloodbath

1. Typically refers to a situation in which many people are killed in a violent and extreme manner.

2. Also refers to a situation that does not involve extreme violence but involves the absolute dominance by one thing over another.

3. Death by bleeding within a bathtub.

4. In financial terms: refers to an investment resulting in massive and unexpected loss.

1. Not many people were killed in the Boston Massacre, but it was still a bloodbath.

2. Although the Broncos expected to be competitive in Super Bowl 48, the Seahawks quickly turned it into a bloodbath.

3. On July 13, 1793 Jean-Paul Marat slumped into his bathtub after being stabbed -- a literal and figurative bloodbath. The assailant claimed that she was preventing an even bigger bloodbath but was guillotined anyway.

4. I thought that putting my entire life savings into Lehman Brothers in 2007 would allow me to retire sooner than everyone else. Instead, it was a bloodbath.

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It is on

This phrase is used after a bet has been made.

Gambler: "I bet you $10 that you will lose your next bet."
Guy: "It is on"

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