Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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Last week 69-year-old Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer, leader of The Netherlands' Christian Historical Party, talked like a Dutch uncle to his parliamentary colleagues.
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
Lin Piao is the Guards' command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chairman Roger Blough, a onetime schoolteacher, lectured Jack Kennedy like a Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
You simply got to talk to 'em like a Dutch uncle, Anderson.
From Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon
