Old Man Winter
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English[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- Personification of winter.[1][2]
- 2002, Robert H. Claxton, Claxton on Williams and Duedall, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001[1]:
- It is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter".
- 2001, Sara Foss, The Daily Gazette: Speaking of the weather[2]:
- […] 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 […]
Translations[edit]
Old Man Winter
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “Old Man Winter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Farlex Dictionary