DutchmanI'm a Dutchman if I do. A strong refusal. During the rivalry between England and Holland, the word Dutch was synonymous with all that was false and hateful, and when a man said, “I would rather be a Dutchman than do what you ask me,” he used the strongest term of refusal that words could express.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Dutchman from Infoplease:
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