Dutch feast

English

Noun

Dutch feast (plural Dutch feasts)

1. (archaic) An entertainment where the host becomes drunk before the guests.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 72:

     We sat to a late hour, but, as I wished to avoid making a Dutch feast of it, I acted with caution and kept tolerably sober.