English Dictionary

Dutch reckoning

noun

(idiomatic, uncommon, archaic) A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high. / (nautical) A false or incorrect reckoning of position.

I had to pay the bill at the restaurant, but it was a Dutch reckoning.

意味（1）

(idiomatic, uncommon, archaic) A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high.

As if all Light of Reasoning were so shut up in Clavius his Brain, that because he does not see, the rest of Mankind must be blind; and what is that way of Reasoning that he betakes himself to, but by huddling the Principles of Geometry into Confusion, without order of method of Reasoning, to make a Conclusion, like a Dutch Reckoning of Allem-al?

意味（2）

(nautical) A false or incorrect reckoning of position.

意味（3）

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.