Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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Air Force playing the role of a straitlaced, old-fashioned Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Economist Milton Gilbert, not only commands enormous respect among moneymen but often talks like a Dutch uncle to errant governments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Discussing the woes of anthropology in Philadelphia last week, he talked to his colleagues 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
You simply got to talk to 'em like a Dutch uncle, Anderson.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by McCutcheon, George Barr
