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(Literally: Let it go to Holland, let it to the Netherlands, down the stream.) This is a figurative expression, too. If something happened to fall into the river Rhine , it was bound to drift down towards Holland, and usually could not, and cannot, be rescued in Cologne due to the high current of the Rhine at the city center side.
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The name Holland first appeared in sources for the region around Haarlem, and by 1064 was being used as the name of the entire county. By the early twelfth century, the inhabitants of Holland were called Hollandi in a Latin text. [7] Holland is derived from the Old Dutch term holtlant ('wood-land'). [8]
This is an incomplete list of Dutch expressions used in English; some are relatively common (e.g. cookie), some are comparatively rare.In a survey by Joseph M. Williams in Origins of the English Language it is estimated that about 1% of English words are of Dutch origin.
Holland may refer to the Netherlands as a whole, in informal contexts and sports events County of Holland , a historical county in the Holy Roman Empire de facto until 1581, formally until 1795 Dutch Republic or Republic of the Seven United Provinces, an independent aristocratic Republic from 1579/1581 until 1795, frequently called "Holland" in ...
Dutch, the magazine, an English-language magazine about the Netherlands and the Dutch Dutching , a gambling term that signifies betting on more than one outcome Dutch, an American trip-hop duo that released the 2010 album A Bright Cold Day
"Going Dutch" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining
One-third of the world's exports of chilis, tomatoes, and cucumbers go through the country. The Netherlands exports one-fifteenth of the world's apples. [198] A significant portion of Dutch agricultural exports consists of fresh-cut plants, flowers, and flower bulbs, with the Netherlands exporting two-thirds of the world's total. [198]