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
Then, in the tone of a Dutch uncle, he reviewed his Administration's foreign policy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the highly respected Henry Kaufman, a partner in Salomon Bros, who often serves as Wall Street's Dutch uncle, called for the declaration of a "national economic emergency."
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
He uses something like a thousand Italians, and a man to manage them who can talk to them like a Dutch uncle is what he has always needed.
From The Beautiful Lady by Tarkington, Booth
