单词 | to beat the dutch |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat the Dutch c. to beat the Dutch, to do something extraordinary or startling. that beats the Dutch, that beats everything. U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > quality of inspiring wonder > be a matter of wonder [verb (intransitive)] musea1500 to beggar description, comparea1616 to beat the Dutch1775 to beat all1839 1775 Revolut. Song in New-Eng. Hist. & Geneal. Reg. (1857) XI. 191 Our cargoes of meat, drink, and cloaths beat the Dutch. 1906 M. E. Freeman By Light of Soul xx. 277 Well, you women do beat the Dutch. 1939 Amer. Speech 14 267 If it is startling news, it ‘beats the Jews’ or ‘beats the Dutch’. < as lemmas |
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