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go Dutch

idiom

To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.


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Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all dressed up and nowhere to go

    Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

  2. 02

    all systems go

    Everything is ready.

  3. 03

    as you go

    While one is doing (something); as one progresses.

  4. 04

    boldly go where no man has gone before

    To break new ground.

  5. 05

    come and go

    To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.

  6. 06

    don't go there

    Do not broach that topic.

  7. 07

    Dutch courage

    The courage or bravado induced by alcohol.

  8. 08

    Dutch reckoning

    A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.

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