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Topic: Can you say "tap a bath", or is the correct expression something different?

Anonymous a36f4f7fd2448cd9d41fb505a020a4e0 started this discussion 2 months (2008-10-09 00:52:05 UTC) ago:

"Tap out a bath" or "tap up a bath", perhaps?

Maybe "tap a bath" makes it sound as if you are fucking the bathtub (due to the modern "tap" slang)?

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Anonymous 42289eb5db7e50ab871a676bcb643c12 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-09 00:56:46 UTC) ago, 5 minutes later (#67,759):

Even slang words have multiple meanings (in fact, that is what makes them slang). Draw a bath is another way of saying it if you can use context clues.

Anonymous d702156317d2d3f8abf731d9136ce651 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-09 00:58:02 UTC) ago, 1 minute later (#67,760):

Water taps, tap a bath…I got it and I'm not even British.

(OP is a brit, right?)

Anonymous a36f4f7fd2448cd9d41fb505a020a4e0 (OP) replied with this 2 months (2008-10-09 01:00:15 UTC) ago, 2 minutes later (#67,762):

@67,760

No, I am not.

Anonymous 130914059d02fc6b03a763d24fff76b9 replied with this 2 months (2008-10-09 02:01:38 UTC) ago, 1 hour later (#67,777):

To me, "tap a bath" does sound sexual. From a non native speaker it would appear to be a bad translation. You would say "fill" or "run" the bath.