dutch courage

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   courage resulting from intoxication

   Broadercourage

Questions about dutch courage

What does dutch courage mean?

dutch courage means "courage resulting from intoxication".

Is dutch courage a common word?

dutch courage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.