mud bath

• mudbath

mud bath (plural mud baths)

1. The immersion of the body in mud, for therapeutic reasons.
2. (figurative) A very muddy or dirty area or thing.
   • 2011, Eric de la Harpe, Crossing the Rubicon: A Journey in the Time of Apartheid, page 347:

     That was the spot where the van had overturned one evening when this road was a mud bath.

   • 1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem):

     'Where thought is clear and nimble,
     Where life is pure and fresh,
     Where the soul comes back rejoicing
     From the mud-bath of the flesh