Dutch uncle
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Economist Milton Gilbert, not only commands enormous respect among moneymen but often talks like a Dutch uncle to errant governments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the highly respected Henry Kaufman, a partner in Salomon Bros, who often serves as Wall Street's Dutch uncle, called for the declaration of a "national economic emergency."
From Time Magazine Archive
Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today their relationship is almost that of father & son� or son and 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
