Dutch courage

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Dutch courage … John le Carré's Toby Bell takes to a cafe to prepare himself to steal an illicit recording back from his employer.

From The Guardian • Apr. 12, 2013

The very effrontery with which you fancy you are braving public opinion is only Dutch courage.

From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

I would not have my wig box snatched away; and there is no limit to the audacity of those bully beaux when they have drunk enough to give them Dutch courage.

From Tom Tufton's Travels by Everett-Green, Evelyn

One portion of the British troops that desired to fire upon those exhibitors of "Dutch courage" actually belonged to the most conspicuous of the regiments that ran away at Falkirk, seventy years before.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various

"Dutch courage is cheap enough, Mister Slyne," said the old man tauntingly.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson