maiden-aunt

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Exempel på maiden aunt

  • 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.

  • A fellow don described him as being descended from a long line of maiden aunts.

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