At the moment one can learn from one's younger brother, one's maiden aunt or anybody one likes.
I speak with some feeling, being a maiden aunt myself.
It reminded me in some ways of a maiden aunt trying to explain the facts of life to her more sophisticated nephews.
It seemed to me very much like an aged maiden aunt trying to instruct her modern grandniece in the facts of life.
It was a speech of a maiden aunt in a lions' den.
You might say that the failure of morale in war-time is due to the absence of a sufficient number of maiden aunts.
This is going to reduce the theatre to a maiden aunt's charade, where nobody is allowed to see anything except what is pleasant.
There are too many so-called leaders of opinion in this country, addressing the nation as if it mainly consisted of maiden aunts and old women in trousers.
