Dutch uncle
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Chairman Roger Blough, a onetime schoolteacher, lectured Jack Kennedy like a Dutch uncle.
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Discussing the woes of anthropology in Philadelphia last week, he talked to his colleagues like a Dutch uncle.
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Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle.
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Uncle Sam's voice was more like that of a Dutch uncle whose main message was: do it yourself�and this is how.
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He can talk it like a Dutch uncle; I can’t.”
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram
