Dutch uncle
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Chairman Roger Blough, a onetime schoolteacher, lectured Jack Kennedy like a Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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 Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
