dutch uncle
荷兰叔叔,荷兰人叔叔,荷兰大叔,荷兰人的叔叔
Definitions
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Sometimes Offensive.
- : a person who criticizes or reproves with unsparing severity and frankness.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Same with my uncle and cousins when their planes landed from Vietnam.
The young Jordanian pilot comes from a well-known military family in the kingdom and his uncle is a retired major general.
Between June and October 1943, 4,283 British, 1,303 Dutch, 1,630 Australian, and 88 American soldiers died.
It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London Blitz was irritating.
“We are not proponents of Dutch citizens getting involved in the struggle,” says Bahoz Derik of the Dutch Kurdish FedKom network.
The strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
Mrs. Woodbury paints in oils and water-colors; the latter are genre scenes, and among them are several Dutch subjects.
“It means, my dear, that the Dragoons and the 60th will have to teach these impudent rebels a much-needed lesson,” said her uncle.
She did her work at a most interesting period in Dutch painting.
The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.