Dutch uncle
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Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle.
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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.
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Last week he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators.
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Fresh from reputedly lecturing King Carol of Rumania for two hours like a Dutch uncle, M. Barthou wisely did not take that tone with King Alexander.
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"Start talking to him like a Dutch uncle; I'll be waiting in the study if you want me," and with a tattoo of high heels she left us with our patient.
From Pledged to the Dead by Seabury Quinn
