Dutch uncle
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Today their relationship is almost that of father & son� or son and 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 he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators.
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Accordingly, Vorster last week treated Smith to a Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality."
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Yes, to-morrow he would have Spurrier at his quarters and talk to him like a Dutch uncle.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
