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Phrase(s): take a shower [and] take a bath
to bathe. • I take a shower every morning. • John takes a hot bath to relax. take a spill to have a fall; to tip over. (Also with bad, nasty, quite, etc. Also with have.) • Ann tripped on the curb and took a nasty spill. • John had quite a spill when he fell off his bicycle.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs