{"id":919,"date":"2015-09-29T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:26:30","slug":"idiom-113-dutch-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-113-dutch-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 113 \u2013 Dutch Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We took our new Japanese clients out for a large dinner last night. Because I studied Japanese for 2 years at high-school, it was decided I should make a speech in Japanese after the meal. I was very nervous about it, but fortunately the four glasses of wine I had with dinner gave me all the dutch courage <em>(angetrunkener Mut)<\/em> I needed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuidam-dutch-courage-gin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-920 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuidam-dutch-courage-gin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"zuidam-dutch-courage-gin\" width=\"101\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuidam-dutch-courage-gin-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuidam-dutch-courage-gin-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/zuidam-dutch-courage-gin.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most common explanation for this idiom dates back to\u00a0the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries. English soldiers claimed that\u00a0Dutch soldiers needed\u00a0to drink gin (invented by the Dutch) to give them enough courage to fight. In this sense the term is rather racist, suggesting that the Dutch would only show up for wars if they were drunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took our new Japanese clients out for a large dinner last night. Because I studied Japanese for 2 years at high-school, it was decided I should make a speech in Japanese after the meal. I was very nervous about it, but fortunately the four glasses of wine I had with dinner gave me all [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}