Meaning of old man yelling at clouds | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“They don’t seem to understand that they look like fools, raging against the dying of the light with all of the effectiveness of an old man yelling at clouds. Again, that whole lack-of-self-awareness thing.”

“Sure, Fraser sounds like an old man yelling at clouds, or shooing some kids off his lawn, but there’s truth in that rant.”

“Much of it was nonsense, old men yelling at clouds and talking about how back in their day people had common decency, as if football hasn’t always attracted an element of egomaniacs and testosterone-fueled rage monsters who only started committing crimes in the late 1990s.”

“If he never managed to deal with his issues, though, I’d imagine he’s either now battling it out with wife No. 8 or 9 or 10, or else he’s given up on marriage altogether and gotten himself a half-dozen cats and become a lonely, bitter old man yelling at clouds.”

“Are fundamentals disappearing from Major League Baseball? / I see a lot of old men yelling at clouds. Who cares about fundamentals? I just want to see Bryce Harper strike out 170 times, bat .230 and hit 40 home runs.”

“Not to sound like an old man yelling at clouds, but back in my day, when you bought a game that was it. You owned it and all of its associated content.”

“Aaron Rodgers needed to be convinced. At age 36, he may not be the football version of the crotchety-old-man-yelling-at-clouds meme just yet, but even Rodgers will admit that he was more than a little set in his ways.”

““To get people to care about this is like old man yelling at clouds. It just doesn’t resonate,” [Kay] Hanley said. “It’s very dense and complex and boring. But I do think fans are the key to this. Once they start leaving Spotify for other services, that is what is going to make all the difference.””

“Would I prefer the Canadiens hadn’t gone the way of the other 31 NHL teams in allowing advertising on uniforms? Absolutely. / Will I shake my fist at the clouds (summoning yet more Old Man Yelling at Clouds GIFs from slack-jawed numb-nuzzles)? No, I will not.”

“This may, in part, have transformed him into something resembling an old man yelling at clouds.”

“Old Men Yelling at Clouds / “You see the world through rose-coloured glasses.” / I have heard this all my life and have even come to take it as a compliment. My family says it, friends say it, colleagues agree and social media is quick to ridicule. When I hit my seventies, I became acutely aware that a car accident or falling off a ladder or merely wandering off and getting lost in a park would see me described in the local press as an “elderly gentleman.” I began to wonder at what point, exactly, do aging males become the cartoon character Abe, grandpa in The Simpsons, raising a fist to the sky over that perfect headline: “Old Man Yells at Cloud.””

““Sure, if you listen to the old school guys who also think we’ve all gone soft because their generation didn’t need so much safety gear.” He pressed a kiss to my temple. “Ignore the old men yelling at clouds.””

“This may seem reminiscent of an old man yelling at clouds, but Kentucky’s pigskin history is built upon its wins and losses. Fans and their pent-up enthusiasm accompanying every preseason must also suffer from short term memory loss.”

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