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Re: Beating the Dutch

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Monday, April 29, 2002, 11:36
 --- 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".
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