een beetje quite

English translation: to be/break (more or less) even

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Dutch term or phrase:	een beetje quite
English translation:	to be/break (more or less) even
Entered by:	Lucy Spring

15:04 May 24, 2005

Dutch to English translations [PRO]
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Dutch term or phrase: een beetje quite

X heeft een beetje quite gespeeld. (This relates to football). No further context. I have found a few Google hits, but I'm none the wiser.

Lucy Spring

to be even

Explanation:
If it is related to gambling (on matches) it might refer to recuperate losses incurred with other matches. So X has recovered my losses, or something in that style.

Hope this helps.

Selected response from:

Martijn Naarding
Spain
Local time: 05:31

Grading comment

I did wonder whether it should be "quitte", but having found all those google hits, I wondered if it was some strange term I hadn't come across before. Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

2 +4

to be even

Martijn Naarding

4 +1

more or less even

Meturgan

Answers

4 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

to be even

Explanation:
If it is related to gambling (on matches) it might refer to recuperate losses incurred with other matches. So X has recovered my losses, or something in that style.

Hope this helps.

Martijn Naarding
Spain
Local time: 05:31
Native speaker of:

Dutch
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

I did wonder whether it should be "quitte", but having found all those google hits, I wondered if it was some strange term I hadn't come across before. Thanks!

2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

een beetje quitte more or less even

Explanation:

X heeft een beetje quitte gespeeld = “X broke more or less even”

I put in another dollar, pushed the thing--nothing, pushed the thing--nothing, bet the rest, pushed the thing: cherry, cherry, cherry, seventy bucks. I had figured out what I wanted to do for the rest of the weekend, but first, I had to go find those foreign ladies again.
That was actually my only substantial win from then on, and even a hundred and twenty dollars, Steve and I broke more or less even, but that included the cost of meals and drinks, although you couldn't drink in the casino area like you could in Vegas, Steve pointed out to me about a thousand times. http://members.lycos.co.uk/mysticalchicken/casino.html

Meturgan
Hungary
Local time: 05:31

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