old man yells at clouds

English

Phrase

old man yells at clouds (plural old men yell at clouds)

  1. Alternative form of old man yells at cloud.
    • 2023 January 2, Robert Goulder, “Old Man Yells at Clouds and Other Responses to the UTPR”, in Tax Notes Today International‎[1], Tax Analysts, archived from the original on 9 January 2023
    • 2023 April 12, Matthew Byrd, “Resident Evil 4’s Microtransactions Ruin One of the Remake’s Best Features”, in Den of Geek‎[2], archived from the original on 12 April 2023:
      Yes, I’m veering closely into “old man yells at clouds” territory, though that’s the point. The joy of that old-school unlock process isn’t some relic amplified by the allure of nostalgia.
    • 2024 July 2, Adriana E. Ramírez, “The search for substance in this year’s election”, in John Robinson Block, editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 97, number 336, Pittsburgh, Pa., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-14, column 3:
      Somewhere in all the discourse about how the candidates looked and sounded—“old men yell at clouds” comes to mind—we forgot to examine the substance of their words.
    • 2024 November 17, Mike McFeely, “Sports gambling at our fingertips? Bet it goes bad”, in The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, Fargo, N.D., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A5, column 2:
      You want an Old Man Yells at Clouds Hot Take? That’s it. There are going to be millions of young men driving off the financial cliff because of sports betting.
    • 2025 April 23, Patrick Higgins, “The Replacements”, in Anthony Mariani, editor, Fort Worth Weekly‎[3], volume 20, number 52, Fort Worth, Tex., →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 April 2025, page 21, column 3:
      Despite the old-man-yells-at-clouds aspect to this piece so far, its eventual intent is actually to offer a little bit of hope.
    • 2025 May 21, Scott Barlow, “Market Factors: Dividend increases and mediocre profit growth ahead as bank earnings reporting begins”, in The Globe and Mail‎[4], archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
      Author and music YouTuber Rick Beato occasionally rants against the low quality of modern popular music and these are entertaining in an old man yells at clouds kind of way.
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