old man yelling at the clouds
English
editNoun
editold man yelling at the clouds (plural old men yelling at the clouds)
- Alternative form of old man yells at cloud.
- 2022 August 10, Mark Daniell, “In Deep Waters?”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 17, column 6:
- On social media, Waters was billed as an out-of-touch “old man yelling at the clouds” with one Twitter user calling him a “selfish privileged white boomer.”
- 2022 September 18, Daniel Neman, “The many drawbacks of online shopping, awkward fits included”, in Sunday Post-Dispatch, volume 144, number 261, page C3, column 4:
- I fully realize that I am an old man yelling at the clouds. I’m an old man yelling at the clouds in my khakis and my tie, and I’m not even all that old. I know that life has passed me by. / I know that all the cool kids buy everything online. / Let them, I say. / Let them buy cool shirts that match their eyes but hang wrong on their bodies.
- 2023, Yascha Mounk, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, Penguin Press, →ISBN:
- Nowadays, anybody who talks about identity politics or describes an activist as woke is liable to be perceived as an old man yelling at the clouds.