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UNCLE

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uncle substantiv

1. unchi;

(glumeţ) a rich uncle unchiul din America;

to talk to smb. like a Dutch uncle a vorbi cuiva cu severitate binevoitoare, a face cuiva o morală părintească.

2. (sl.) cămătar;

at my uncle's la cămătar.

◊ (fam.) if my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle dacă badea ar avea cosiţe i s-ar zice lele; dacă bunica avea roate ar fi fost tramvai.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It is about my uncle's usual time.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Did he come from your uncle's, then, when he visited us?

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Your uncle and aunt will never allow you to leave England.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

‘What is it, uncle?’ I cried.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sound of her voice had not reached me, but he bent his head as if he listened to her, and then said: Let you stay with your uncle?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

What took you up to Cliffe Royal, uncle?

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! Your uncle! He keeps a man-servant, does he?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

"Our uncle John is dead," said he.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My uncle’s voice is always remarkably low.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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