Re: Beating the Dutch

On Monday 29 April 2002 18:51, Andreas Johansson wrote:

Jan wrote:

> >I always thought, that the expression "to go Dutch" means, that a
> >restaurant
> >bill is split up equally between the participants.
>
> Is that supposed to be greedy? When I've run across that custom, it's
> always been taken as an invitation to eat and drink as much expensive
> stuff as possible, since if you order the most the rest will in
> effect pay for some of your food and drink (this is known as
> 'alcohologic').
And here am I thinking that "to go Dutch" meant "you pay for yours, I
pay for mine", the way that "a Dutch treat" means "een sigaar uit eigen
doos" (literally "a cigar from one's own box", you get a treat but you
have to pay for it openly or covertly).

   Irina

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