Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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Lin Piao is the Guards' command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai.
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
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.
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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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"It ought to have been," he confided, "but I got mad and talked like a Dutch uncle, and Barzil went off on a holy tack."
From Java Head by Hergesheimer, Joseph
