go Dutch
Verb
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Verb
go Dutch
- (idiom, informal, slang) To pay for one's own food and bills, or split the cost, when eating at a restaurant or going out for entertainment.
- 1958, Evelyn Ruth (Millis) Duvall, The Art of Dating, Associated Press, p. 138:
- GOING DUTCH Some girls are quite willing to pay part of the expenses on special dates. When something is planned which is beyond the boy's means. . . .
- 2005, Rex Reed, reviewing De-Lovely in Mews Items: Amazing But True Cat Stories, by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun, [http://books.google.com/books?id=m2G5BIoIKZgC&pg=RA1-PA193&dq=%22goes+Dutch%22&lr=&ei=Ip1kR6PgCYLusgPSorScAw&sig=pPIwDBOtKTAZB9TTurE0u7j-7oY#PRA1-PA195,M1 p. 193]:
- Ashley Olsen may be a teenage zillionaire, but when she's out on the town with pals, she goes dutch.
- 1958, Evelyn Ruth (Millis) Duvall, The Art of Dating, Associated Press, p. 138:
- French: payer chacun sa part
- German: getrennte Kasse machen
- Italian: fare alla romana
- Portuguese: dividir o custo, dividir a conta
- Russian: устра́ивать скла́дчину
- Spanish: ir a escote, pagar a escote, pagar a la inglesa, pagar a pachas
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