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
To straighten things out, Marks sets himself up as a one-man's family � a substitute father and sometimes mother figure who talks to disturbed patients more or less like a loving 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
But after that, I talked to him like a Dutch uncle.
From Null-ABC by Dongen, H. R. van
