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 Dutch Comfort.Dutch Courage. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Dutch Concert.
 
A great noise and uproar, like that made by a party of Dutchmen in sundry stages of intoxication, some singing, others quarrelling, speechifying, wrangling, and so on.   1
 


 Dutch Comfort.Dutch Courage. 

 
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