Dutch uncle
Example Sentences
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To straighten things out, Marks sets himself up as a one-man's family � a substitute father and sometimes mother figure who talks to disturbed patients more or less like a loving Dutch uncle.
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
Last week he talked like a Dutch uncle to a Manhattan gathering of 600 medicos and hospital administrators.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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I could have sworn he wasn't that sort of pup, and when he came in for his orders I talked to him like a Dutch uncle.
From The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
