get-off-my-lawn

English

Etymology

From the stereotype of a grumpy old homeowner yelling at the neighborhood children to get off his lawn.

Adjective

get-off-my-lawn (comparative more get-off-my-lawn, superlative most get-off-my-lawn)

1. Characterized by ill-tempered intolerance of modern or different ideas or values.
   • 2007 April 29, Justin Tasch, “Milbury calls P.K. Subban a 'clown' for dancing during warmups”, in New York Daily News:

     Mike Milbury, the failed Islanders coach and general manager who as a player with the Bruins once hit a Rangers fan with a shoe, made a get-off-my-lawn comment on television Friday night, taking issue with Predators star P.K. Subban dancing and having fun during warmups before their game against the Blues, calling Subban a "clown."

   • 2012 August 16, Neil Genzlinger, “Analyzing History Before the Dust Settles”, in The New York Times:

     From there, though, the film turns into a disorganized rant, jumping from Uneeda Biscuits to the Glass-Steagall Act to kids and their infernal text messaging and anything else that occurred to Mr. Hoffman or the seemingly random collection of people he allows to spout off on camera. The whole enterprise has a get-off-my-lawn feel; it tries to pass off whining and a rose-colored-glasses view of the past as insight.

   • 2017 April 27, Jim Litke, “Refs won't bite as Hoiberg tries 'palming' off blame”, in La Crosse Tribune:

     We pause in a postseason packed with great press-conference performances to award a gold star to Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg for his “get-off-my-lawn” rant against Celtics’ guard Isaiah Thomas.

   • 2017 April 27, Erik Himmelsbach-Weinstein, “In defense of noise: Damon Krukowski's 'The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecing in a Digital World'”, in Los Angeles Times:

     For example, Neil Young often issued get-off-my-lawn screeds about the superior sound quality of analog vinyl versus digital CDs and MP3s (that is, until he went into the digital music player business).