Dutch courage
Example Sentences
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Dutch courage … John le Carré's Toby Bell takes to a cafe to prepare himself to steal an illicit recording back from his employer.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013
Bridegroom, Dutch courage of, 72; driven to desperation, 83.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
It came to her in a flash how impossible it was for him, with no pride but self-love, no courage but Dutch courage, to understand fearlessness and endurance.
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
Cowardice -- N. cowardice, pusillanimity; cowardliness &c. adj.; timidity, effeminacy. poltroonery, baseness; dastardness†, dastardy†; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Running gives Dutch courage, so we dropped from our wall, and we, too, began running—towards the deserters.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
