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Dutch reckoning

noun

Definitions

  1. A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.

    • 'That's better!' he said, still smiling, but very much more pleasantly. 'Rig Jane out in the first style of elegance, and send me a Dutch reckoning: I don't want to know the particulars.'

  2. A false or incorrect reckoning of position.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Dutch, reckoning.

    • 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624.

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