Some business terms that will cost you. Transcript of radio broadcast:
09 February 2008

Broadcast: December 1, 2004

2. (a rising tide that) lifts all boats - something that helps all people or all groups
Example: "We're only number three, but the current economic growth will lift all boats, so we're sure to make a profit this year."

Common expressions that have nothing to do with the Dutch people.

Now, the VOA Special English program, Words and Their Stories.  Today, we tell about American expressions using the word “Dutch.”

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Many of the Dutch expressions heard in American English were first used in England in the seventeenth century.  That was a time of fierce naval competition between England and The Netherlands.  At that time, the British used Dutch as a word for something bad, or false or mistaken.