Idiom
old fart
Meaning
An elderly person, especially one who holds old-fashioned views.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My grandad is a bit of an old fart.”
“The old fart next door complains every time we play music after 8 p.m.”
“The young activists dismissed the senator as a tiresome old fart, blind to the urgent need for change.”
Examples
simple
“My grandad is a bit of an old fart.”
contextual
“The old fart next door complains every time we play music after 8 p.m.”
complex
“The young activists dismissed the senator as a tiresome old fart, blind to the urgent need for change.”
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