Meaning of how do you do, fellow kids | Babel Free

Definitions

Used to criticize someone attempting to appeal to the youth as out of touch.

Examples

“This is the dim path where […] a legitimate candidate of the working class will be hammered over and over in an authenticity battle with a campaign that weekly releases some “How do you do, fellow kids?” embarrassment and whose Instagram manager is a woman with her own HBO series.”

“Five years ago, at the crisp age of 20 (how do you do, fellow kids), I hit the road for a three-hour drive from Pennsylvania to the house of my long-distance-boyfriend-at-the-time in Connecticut.”

“Campaigns have a rich tradition of adapting to the latest technological fads, from wireless radio to television sets and, more recently, to social platforms like Facebook and Snapchat. Many of these efforts share a how-do-you-do-fellow-kids quality to them, and in an attempt to avoid appearing out of touch, the Biden campaign relies on young, digitally fluent aides to host its TikToks.”

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