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Dutch uncle
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Dutch uncle
a man who gives frank and direct advice to someone. (In the way an uncle might, but not a real relative.) I would not have to lecture you like a Dutch uncle if you were not so extravagant. He acts more like a Dutch uncle than a husband. He's forever telling her what to do in public.
See also: Dutch, uncle


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Indeed, in the immediate aftermath of the resolution of the 1930 Imperial Conference, some feared that the dominion government's power to dismiss the governor-general (by direct advice to the monarch) had effectively destroyed the governor-general's reserve powers.
Department of Technical Co-operation for Development (DTCD): An arm of the UN Secretariat, it provides technical expertise, training and direct advice to Governments in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of country and inter-regional development projects.
 
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