Re: Beating the Dutch
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 29, 2002, 11:11 |
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=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:
> 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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John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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