Old Man Winter
English
editProper noun
edit- The personification of winter.[1][2]
- 2001, Sara Foss, The Daily Gazette: Speaking of the weather[1]:
- […] the media like to humanize the weather, to suggest that we’re in some kind of grim battle with Old Man Winter when it’s cold or snowy […]
- 2002, Robert H. Claxton, Claxton on Williams and Duedall, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001[2]:
- It is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter".
Translations
editOld Man Winter
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ “Old Man Winter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Farlex Dictionary