mud bath

plural mud baths · alternative mudbath

1. The immersion of the body in mud, for therapeutic reasons.

   Synonyms: illutation, earth bath

2. figurativelyA very muddy or dirty area or thing.

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

   2011, Eric de la Harpe, Crossing the Rubicon: A Journey in the Time of Apartheid, page 347

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   '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

   1898, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Passing (poem)