Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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Lin Piao is the Guards' command er, but their Dutch uncle seems to be Premier Chou Enlai.
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
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
Last week he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was a good deal put out about it, and I expect I talked to her like a Dutch uncle when I caught up with her.
From Cap'n Eri by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
