Old Man Winter en · PROPN
Meanings
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The personification of winter.
[…] 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 […]
2001, Sara Foss, The Daily Gazette: Speaking of the weather:Street child, street child, tell me where will you be goin' / When old man winter gets his horn and starts blowin'
1972, Bobby Womack, “Harry Hippie”, in Understanding:It is interesting how we personalize or humanize certain forces which we cannot control like "Mother Nature" and "Old Man Winter".
2002, Robert H. Claxton, Claxton on Williams and Duedall, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001:They also have humanized time and weather, with such references as "Father Time" and "Old Man Winter", "Mother Earth" and "Hurricane Floyd".
2003, Scotland Miles, Don't Take Me To Your Leader, →ISBN, pages 28–29:
Relateds
Ullr · Mother Nature · anthropomorphism · Jack Frost · humanization · Father Frost