old man yelling at the clouds

English

Noun

old man yelling at the clouds (plural old men yelling at the clouds)

1. 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.