You can also apply heat or take a warm bath to relax your muscles.

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Particular problems, like the monoline insurers, should be dealt with by particular remedies, not the warm bath of monetary policy.

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The average temperature is above 40C, the sea is like a warm bath, the golden sand burns your feet and the ubiquitous tarmac is starting to sizzle.

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In Europe no such partisan democratic body exists (the European Parliament is more remote from voters and less powerful than Congress, and MEPs live in a warm bath of mushy conventional wisdom).

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Generally, when he woke from his after-lunch nap, he took a bath and then, if it was warm, he read in a hammock slung between two birch trees.

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