Dutch reckoning

English Pronunciation en en-au-Dutch reckoning.ogg AU Noun - en idiomatic uncommon archaic A (falsified) bill that is not itemised, and that is unjustifiably high. 1712, Roger Coke, A Detection Of The Court and State Of England During The Four Last Reigns, page 22: 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? 1828, Death on Board-Wages, published in Tales of an Antiquary (volume 2 of 3) by Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London: "You knows we never took Mike's duds till you couldn't pay his charges any longer; and since we comes to that, there's two weeks of three shillings and sixpence due for your lodging in the Star-Chamber, for yourself and Master Lionel Falconer, which I supposes you means to pay with a Dutch reckoning: you sees I can speak some names right enough,—d'ye take me,—hey?" and with an ill-natured leer he left the hall. en 2009 Georgette Heyer Frederica 75 '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.' en nautical A false or incorrect reckoning of position. en Dutch reckoning en 1 March 1625 in the Dutch reckoning was, in the English reckoning of the time, 19 February 1624. References en 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue Words apart: the language of prejudice, Jonathon Green, 1996