In so far as Uncle Sam is in debt, Americans can fairly be said to owe principal and interest to the government's creditors.
Chewy and toothsome, the green, white or purple rice — tightly packed in plastic sachets squeezed into mug-sized rattan containers — was as far from Uncle Ben's as Bangkok is from Boston.
Back in Dublin, her grandmother, "mad with grief," had mourned over the body of a deceased uncle far too long.
It's the cosy political stitch-up that marks this out as far superior to Uncle Joe's regime.
Trump had a wife named Melania and that was, as far as Drunk Uncle could recollect, what his doctor said his mole was called.
But though they had traveled far, a distant uncle, Ezra Obama, said the relatives were not certain they would see their famous kin.
But she also makes an impressive case that they offer attractive fixed-income deals relative to the U.S. The balance sheets of many developing countries' governments, she notes, are far healthier than Uncle Sam's.
Wholly-owned government agencies such as the EPA receive far less money from Uncle Sam.
Many of those couples who fought long and hard to win that right may pleasantly find themselves paying Uncle Sam far less and may even get a refund from previous years.
Dantine's telling advances rumors, some more substantiated than others, that Disney, far from the genial uncle persona he cultivated in public, was a cruel, adulterous alcoholic, as megalomaniacal and racist as he was visionary and inspiring.
As for Uncle Barack, far from being downcast about the prospect of handing over the White House keys to a man he warned would flush his legacy down the toilet, the mood was jovial, liberated, even a little demob happy.
