Re: Beating the Dutch
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 29, 2002, 11:36 |
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--- John wrote:
> > Yeah, in this field the French are really beating the Dutch... Sigh...
>
> I suppose I ought to point out that "to beat the Dutch" is a rather
> old-fashioned, maybe even archaic, English idiom for "to surpass
> expectations"; more or less equivalent to the current idiom "to beat all".
Isn't that a striking coincidence?! :)))
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"You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought,
wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that
happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great
comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J.
Michael Straczynski
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