| 单词 | dutch courage |
| 释义 | Dutch courageSEE SYNONYMS FOR Dutch courage ON THESAURUS.COM noun Sometimes Offensive.courage inspired by drunkenness or drinking liquor. Origin of Dutch courageFirst recorded in 1805–15 usage note for Dutch courageDutch courage is foolish courage or misplaced confidence. Because “Dutch” is used to imply that the courage is not genuine, the term is sometimes perceived as insulting to or by the Dutch. See also Dutch. Words nearby Dutch courageDutch cap, Dutch chair, Dutch cheese, Dutch clover, Dutch Colonial, Dutch courage, Dutch cupboard, Dutch disease, Dutch doll, Dutch door, Dutch East Indies Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Dutch courageDutch courage nounfalse courage gained from drinking alcohol alcoholic drink Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with Dutch courageDutch courage False courage acquired by drinking liquor, as in He had a quick drink to give him Dutch courage. This idiom alludes to the reputed heavy drinking of the Dutch, and was first referred to in Edmund Waller's Instructions to a Painter (1665): “The Dutch their wine, and all their brandy lose, Disarm'd of that from which their courage grows.” The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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