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
Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989.
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
Lin Piao is the Guards' command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai.
From Time Magazine Archive
She talked to me like a Dutch uncle, and put her head so clost I could feel them bangs a ticklin' my ear.
From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
