Idiom meaning, usage examples, facts
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TALK TO (SOMEONE) LIKE A DUTCH UNCLE
person who talks to one like a close relative, giving advice that is sound, well-meant, and sometimes stern
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1. The young man and woman were about to run away to get married, so the boy’s brother took them aside and talked to them like a Dutch uncle. He told them that what they were doing was foolish.
2. The boy’s father and mother could talk no sense into him, so they asked a teacher at the boy’s school to talk to him like a Dutch uncle. Similar to: talk sense into (someone). |
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