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Dutch uncle
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Dutch uncle
strict elder who scolds and moralizes. [Br. Slang: Lurie, 122–123]
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Even the river in the foothills resembles a rayon nosegay Stressed to the point of infarction, glorious Dialect of a lost tribe of Dutch uncles, Contemptuous of the harbor lights, yawls and ketches, Lateen-rigged dinghies so like a cartoonish Mesopotamia, Links in a dismal chain of indigo inks From which causality has fled like a rabbit from a hat Or rats from the ruins of Troy, New York.
John Ashbery by Mcgrath, Campbell / Harvard Review
Paul Lohmann Panorama City Prince's fashion statement Having had to suffer through years of torment because my employers required men to wear neckties, I shout a great hurrah for Prince Claus of the Netherlands for yanking off his necktie (``Ties that bind: Prince freeing necks of Dutch uncles, dads,'' Daily News, Dec.
PUBLIC FORUM : SURPRISE WAS NEEDED TO ELIMINATE WEAPONS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
With the necktie a popular, if dreaded, Christmas gift for millions of Dutch uncles and fathers, all this contempt for cravats has the fashion industry rushing to do some damage control.
TIE THAT BINDS; PRINCE FREEING NECKS OF DUTCH UNCLES, DADS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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