Dutch comfort

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English

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Noun

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Dutch comfort (usually uncountable, plural Dutch comforts)

  1. Comfort derived from a situation not being any worse than it is.

References

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  • Frances Grose, The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811).
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