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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Accordingly, Vorster last week treated Smith to a Dutch uncle talk that one diplomat described as "tough to the point of brutality."
From Time Magazine Archive
Discussing the woes of anthropology in Philadelphia last week, he talked to his colleagues like a Dutch uncle.
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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
