Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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Discussing the woes of anthropology in Philadelphia last week, he talked to his colleagues like a Dutch uncle.
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
Up rose Price Commissioner Leon Henderson, addressed the scrapmen like a Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Air Force playing the role of a straitlaced, old-fashioned Dutch uncle.
From Time Magazine Archive
She talked to me like a Dutch uncle, and put her head so clost I could feel them bangs a ticklin' my ear.
From The Duke Of Chimney Butte by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
