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Idioms and Phrases
In trouble or disfavor, as in If I don't finish on time I'll really be in Dutch . This expression may allude to the stern reprimands of a Dutch uncle . [ Slang ; c. 1850]Example Sentences
High on confidence after running a personal best 6.49 secs to seal his breakthrough triumph in Dutch city Apeldoorn 13 days ago, he stated then that he was "coming to take it all".
Greenpeace has counter-sued Energy Transfer in Dutch court, claiming the oil firm is attempting to unfairly use the legal system to silence critics.
Oosterhoff co-founded the KEA Foundation, the Knowledge Center for Euthanasia for Psychological Conditions, which aims to reduce suicides and “put euthanasia for mental illnesses on the map,†according to a translation of the foundation’s website, which is written in Dutch.
“It is not an easy choice,†they wrote in Dutch.
He was supposed to be the next superstar in Dutch, and European, football.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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