Dutch in English

 

One thing is clear: the Dutch are either plain silly or silly with drink according to Anglophones!

Can millions be wrong?

 

Be in Dutch

Be in trouble, be in disfavour

Beat the Dutch

Do something amazing

Do Dutch

Commit suicide

Double Dutch

Unintelligible gibberish

Double Dutch

Using both pill and condom

Dutch

Gamble systematically but wrong

Dutch act

Suicide

Dutch angle

Camera held at strange angle

Dutch auction

Auction in which goods are offered at prices going down instead of going up

Dutch bargain

Bargain made while parties have drunk (too) much

Dutch barn

Barn with roof, without walls

Dutch bath

Acid bath

Dutch belted

Specific Dutch-bred cow

Dutch blue

Intoxication

Dutch book

Cashbook; small-time bookmaker

Dutch brig

Prison cell

Dutch build

Being fat

Dutch builder

Squatter

Dutch buttocked

Fat-arsed

Dutch cap

Diaphragm; condom

Dutch cheese

Cheese from Edam; bald head; tasting of nothing

Dutch clock

Chamber pot

Dutch clover

White clover

Dutch comfort

Situation is bad but could have been even worse

Dutch concert

Many people making a lot of noise: laughing, singing, shouting, not listening to one another

Dutch consolation

Situation is bad but could have been even worse

Dutch courage

Courage inspired by drink

Dutch cousins

Close friends

Dutch crossing

Swaying because of drink

Dutch daub

Bad painting

Dutch defence

Surrender

Dutch disease

Pacifism

Dutch door

Door with two halves that can be shut separately

Dutch drink

Glass emptied in one gulp

Dutch elm disease

Disease of elms

Dutch fart

Young crew member

Dutch feast

Party where the host is the first to be drunk

Dutch fit

Blaze of rage

Dutch foil

False gold leaf

Dutch gleek

Drinking a lot

Dutch gold

False gold leaf

Dutch hoe

Garden hoe

Dutch it

Cheat

Dutch leaf

False gold leaf

Dutch lecture

Sermon

Dutch lottery

Stratified lottery

Dutch medley

Many people making a lot of noise: laughing, singing, shouting, not listening to one another

Dutch metal

False gold leaf

Dutch nightingales

Frogs

Dutch oven

Mouth

Dutch palate

Dubious, fishy taste

Dutch party

Party where you bring your own grub and booze

Dutch pink

Blood

Dutch pump

Treading water

Dutch reckoning

Wild guess, sloppy calculation

Dutch rise

Gross pay rise that does not yield a net rise

Dutch rod

Long-barrelled pistol

Dutch roll

Uncontrolled behaviour of aeroplane

Dutch route

Suicide

Dutch row

Sham argument

Dutch rub

Painful rub with knuckles

Dutch sale

Sale at which goods are offered at prices going down instead of going up

Dutch silver

Silver plated

Dutch steak

Hamburger

Dutch talent

Sloppy work

Dutch tilt

Camera held at strange angle

Dutch to me

Cannot understand this at all

Dutch treat

Unexpectedly having to pay your own way

Dutch wheelbarrow

Holding someone by the feet while he walks on his hands

Dutch widow

Prostitute

Dutch wife

Sex doll, roll of blankets used for masturbation

Dutchman

Makeshift measure

Dutchman’s anchor

Something very useful not available at the crucial moment

Dutchman’s breaches

Streaks of blue in the sky

Dutchman’s Cape

Imaginary country

Dutchman’s drink

Glass emptied in one gulp

Dutchman’s headache

Intoxication; hangover

Dutchy

Sloppy

Flying Dutchman

Ghost ship wrecking other ships

Get in Dutch

Get drunk

Get one’s Dutch up

Make someone angry

Go Dutch

Go out together but pay your own way

I’m a Dutchman if I do

I am most certainly not going to do that

If not, I’m a Dutchman

I swear this is true

My old Dutch

Wife

Talk Dutch

Speak unintelligibly

Talk like a Dutch uncle

Tell somebody off

Well, I’m a Dutchman!

Unbelievable!