Dutch comfort

English

Noun

Dutch comfort (usually uncountable, plural Dutch comforts)

  1. Comfort derived from a situation not being any worse than it is.
    Synonym: Dutch consolation

References

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