Old Man Winter

English
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Proper noun

Old Man Winter

  1. Personification of winter.[1][2]
    • 2002, Robert H. Claxton, Claxton on Williams and Duedall, Florida Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, 1871-2001‎:
      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:
      […] 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 […]
    • 2003, Scotland Miles, Don't Take Me To Your Leader‎, →ISBN, pages 28–29:
      They also have humanized time and weather, with such references as "Father Time" and "Old Man Winter", "Mother Earth" and "Hurricane Floyd".

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References
  1. “Old Man Winter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. Farlex Dictionary

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