old man yelling at clouds
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "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."