Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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Chairman Roger Blough, a onetime schoolteacher, lectured Jack Kennedy like a Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
They could have kept their heads, and if they were any good they could and would have talked like a Dutch uncle to these pathetic people stumbling to their ruin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week 69-year-old Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer, leader of The Netherlands' Christian Historical Party, talked like a Dutch uncle to his parliamentary colleagues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Economist Milton Gilbert, not only commands enormous respect among moneymen but often talks like a Dutch uncle to errant governments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, to-morrow he would have Spurrier at his quarters and talk to him like a Dutch uncle.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
