to go Dutch
5
5.5
- phrasal verb
- /ɡoʊ dʌtʃ/
- Informal
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pagar a medias
- Go Dutch!
I'm, I'm not necessarily against you wanting to be, to go Dutch on the first date, right?
- I'm, I'm not necessarily against you wanting to be, to go Dutch on the first date, right?
- But the point here is men will do things like that, whether it be purposely going Dutch on the first date.
Examples
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We'll go Dutch.
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Hey, how about we go Dutch, eh?
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We'll go Dutch!
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I go Dutch.
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When the bill arrived at the restaurant, they agreed to go Dutch and split the cost evenly.
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For our picnic, we decided to go Dutch so that everyone would bring their own snacks.
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It's common for friends to go Dutch on meals when they go out together.
Synonyms
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8.8
Share the cost of something equally between two people
To share the cost of something by paying together
How Generous
Surface Forms
Morphology
go + Dutch
The meaning 'to share the cost so each person pays for themselves' cannot be derived from 'go' (a very general verb) plus 'Dutch' (a nationality adjective) — the nationality label gives no semantic cue about splitting a bill. This is an idiomatic, culture-specific use of 'Dutch' with no transparent compositional logic, so a B1 learner who only knows the parts would not predict the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase go Dutch may come from an old idea called 'Dutch treat', where Dutch meant paying your own way and people would go pay their own share. That's why go Dutch means 'each person pays for themselves'.