Dutch uncle
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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.
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Fresh from reputedly lecturing King Carol of Rumania for two hours like a Dutch uncle, M. Barthou wisely did not take that tone with King Alexander.
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Air Force playing the role of a straitlaced, old-fashioned Dutch uncle.
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Having a Dutch uncle has won Peapod its first operating profit since the high-tech home-delivery service was founded in 1989.
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Dutch uncle though he was to me, I must give him thanks for the careful business training he bestowed on me.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by Hartmann, George (Henry George August)
