dutch : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an incomprehensible talk
  
• noun the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners
  

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• noun a method of selling in which the price is reduced until a buyer is found
  

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• . See under Auction.

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• noun an industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum
  Amsterdam; capital of The Netherlands.
  

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• noun tropical American bean with red flowers and mottled black beans similar to Phaseolus vulgaris but perennial; a preferred food bean in Great Britain
  runner bean; Phaseolus coccineus; scarlet runner; scarlet runner bean; Phaseolus multiflorus.
  

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• a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk.

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• a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.

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• noun creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage
  shamrock; white clover; Trifolium repens.
  

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• (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland.

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• a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. Slang

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• noun courage resulting from intoxication
  

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• the courage of partial intoxication. Slang Marryat.

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• noun an exterior door divided in two horizontally; either half can be closed or open independently
  half door.
  

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• a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open.

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• noun a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
  Republic of Indonesia; Indonesia.
  

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• noun any of various hybrid ornamental European shade trees ranging from dwarf to tall
  Ulmus hollandica.
  

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• noun disease of elms caused by a fungus
  

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• noun fungus causing Dutch elm disease
  Ceratostomella ulmi.
  

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• noun formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents
  florin; gulden; guilder.
  

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• a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.

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• noun a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975
  Netherlands Guiana; Surinam; Republic of Suriname; Suriname.
  

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• noun a hoe that is used by pushing rather than pulling
  scuffle hoe; scuffle.
  

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• noun bulbous Spanish iris having blue flowers
  Iris tingitana.
  
• noun bulbous Spanish iris with red-violet flowers
  Iris filifolia.
  

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• noun United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925)
  Elmore Leonard; Elmore John Leonard; Leonard.
  

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• (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant. = ethylene chloride

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• noun monetary unit in the Netherlands
  

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• noun an oven consisting of a metal box for cooking in front of a fire
  
• noun iron or earthenware cooking pot; used for stews
  

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• a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.

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• noun the people of the Netherlands
  Dutch.
  
  • the Dutch are famous for their tulips

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• chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale.

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• (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum.

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• a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like.

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• noun a dinner where each person pays for his own
  

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• noun a counselor who admonishes frankly and sternly
  

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• noun a vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease
  Scolytus multistriatus.
  

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• noun cocoa powder treated with a mild alkalizing agent (such as baking soda)
  

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• verb share expenses equally and split the cost of something
  
  • My boyfriend and I always go Dutch

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• noun a dialect of High German spoken in parts of Pennsylvania and Maryland
  

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• noun an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish
  Taal; Afrikaans.
  

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