Dutch uncle informal

I'll go and talk to them like a Dutch uncle.

He said, 'They talk about people having a Dutch uncle.

But after that, I talked to him like a Dutch uncle.

I have talked to him, talked like a Dutch uncle, but he will not listen.

And I think the time has come for me to assume the role of a Dutch uncle.

Gordon finally had to sit him down and give him a Dutch uncle talk.

Shaw had the comfortable look of a Dutch uncle.

Ed watched him drive off, his father's man, his Dutch uncle.

Dutch Uncles are critical favourites but their three albums have not troubled the top 40.

He was his traveling partner and occasionally his Dutch uncle as well.

According to that source, these are the alleged reasons behind the English term "Dutch uncle."

They could be his Dutch uncles, you could see him thinking. '

We cannot guarantee an all-powerful state will remain a good fairy, or at worst a Dutch uncle.

"It was time for Yale to stop treating the president as everybody's grandfather or Dutch uncle," he said.

We're taking the long way round," he observed "because I'm going to talk to you like a Dutch uncle for saying things like that.

Bunny, he's been a combination father, teacher, coach, and Dutch uncle to me since Garkin was killed.

Don't give me the Dutch Uncle just because I made a joke.'

Since he decided against his own presidential bid, he said, he took it upon himself to deliver "the Dutch uncle talk."

Godliman said, "Look, perhaps I shouldn't talk to you like a Dutch uncle."

John Henry Potts had eight Dutch uncles (on his mother's side).

"Purity is the enemy of victory," Barbour said, later describing his words as "the Dutch uncle talk."

First he plays footsie, getting as close again as the Dutch uncle I thought he had been.

In his first hearing on it last month, he dealt with Shalala like a Dutch uncle and praised her testimony as "historic."