Please explain to this premature fuddy-duddy what is going on.
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A self-described fuddy duddy, her young classmates do help her to loosen up.
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This was a fuddy-duddy of a chicken sandwich dressed to look hip and cool.
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Call me a fuddy-duddy, but jeepers, it starts to read like a Nancy Drew mystery.
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Conversely, CG is a "misfit" in fuddy-duddy America, too regulated and structured for Mr Chaudhary's taste.
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I'm not an old fuddy-duddy, but this particular misuse of the language has always irritated me.
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That's also because I'm a middle-aged fuddy-duddy, so I'm trying to stay optimistic about it.
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It's not just that the teacher, played charmingly by Austin Pendleton, is a caricature of a fuddy-duddy.
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"I never thought this will come to this, but sometimes I just feel like a fuddy-duddy," Kaplan says.
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Jeb and Hillary Clinton are the fuddy-duddy neighborhood-association types, and no shortage of contempt is reserved for them.
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Ditch the fuddy-duddy clamshell, Apple seemed to say, and use touchscreens and high-resolution tablet cameras and stylus pens instead.
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O. Historian Alexis Coe is certainly not your parents' fuddy-duddy historian, coming to general acclaim for her irreverent, witty approach to chronicling history.
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Hanks plays Langdon like a fuddy-duddy James Bond who doesn't have awesome gadgets, cars, or athleticism but, instead knows way too much about Dante.
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The famously slick Tom Ford tuxedo-clad super spy invented by Ian Fleming now wearing the fuddy-duddy fabric most often associated with 9603s literature professors?
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In the words of the Mirror's fuddy-duddy chairman, where the Mirror offers vegetables with the odd pudding thrown in, the Sun waves a bag of sweets.
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Raised on a steady diet of social media TMI, we were expected to lump fuddy-duddy ideas about privacy and discretion in with bell-bottoms and shoulder pads.
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I never want to be an old fuddy-duddy; I hold the self-proclaimed record for being the World's Oldest Living Teenager and I intend to keep it that way.
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It's so unusual to have someone who's a fuddy-duddy professor — oops — but he's also a C.I.A. agent — oops, and he's a writer and he drives a motorbike and he's gay.
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"Trump used profanity three times in his speech, and look I'm not an old fuddy duddy, but this should at least be G ... rated," Bush said last week in Laconia, New Hampshire.
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If supply-side economics doesn't work this time – and the old Washington fuddy-duddy economists have some good arguments on that point – this next cliff dive could end in a very hard landing.
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"The danger is, because we haven't lots of money to refurbish, if it gets too tatty and dirty it stops being a one-off place and becomes a fuddy duddy cafe," says Wade.
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And dogs, of course — hundreds of them, freed from their fuddy-duddy humans, playing chase or clumped together in growly play-scrums or taking off on wild-eyed sprints, tongues waving like pennants.
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"I think people find it astonishing that a fuddy-duddy judge can step out from behind the bench and come across as halfway engaging and demystify the judiciary," he has said of his social media posts.
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Hayden: We realized recently that the chorus of the first song on our first album, "Vigil For A Fuddy Duddy" goes "Men to be men, must love and pity, so deeply and secretly," which is a lyric that belongs on this record.
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As Jong-Goo, Kwak swings from moments of comical incompetence as the fuddy-duddy local policeman to moments of barely concealed self-loathing to moments of absolute horror and rage as his distrust of the Japanese stranger and his fear for his daughter grows.
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So, you think my thought that video games are something you do in one part of the house around one screen or one device or watching TV is something you do, it's a distinct thing, that's an old fuddy-duddy way of looking at it, and everyone is ... younger folks are going to increasingly converge?
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"It was one of those items that became part of the zeitgeist," Mr. Pask said of a boxy functional garment repurposed for an employment landscape in which people (not exclusively men) find themselves casting about for something comfortable and multiuse, a garment more adult than a sweatshirt yet less fuddy-duddy than a suit.
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His company, Decadent Decaf, has all the markings of a cool coffee brand: minimalist branding (Wilmot told his designer he didn't want it to be "fuddy-duddy") and smart marketing: With just a few hundred bucks a month spent on Google AdWords and Amazon, he's managed to grow the company between 50 to 100 percent every year and made about a quarter-million pounds in online revenue in the last year.
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"Fuddy-duddy" is used to indicate "stuffiness" and "outmoded tastes and manners". For example, the Bentley car manufacturer was referred to as a "fuddy-duddy" brand in a 2004 Popular Science article.Stephany Wilkinson Fuddy-Duddy Brand Spawns Luxury Rocket Man & Machine; Hard Fast Shiny Objects and Why We Love Them, July 2004 120 pages Vol. 265, No. 1 ISSN 0161-7370 Published by Bonnier Corporation, Popular Science page 26 Ambrose Bierce's story Who Drives Oxen Should Himself be Sane, published in 1918, starts out with a use of the word and discussion of it as a "unique adjuration".
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Fuddy-duddy (or fuddy duddy or fuddy-dud)Tom Dalzell The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is a term for a person who is fussy while old-fashioned, traditionalist, conformist, or conservative, sometimes almost to the point of eccentricity or geekiness. It is a slang term, mildly derogatory but sometimes affectionate too and can be used to describe someone with a zealous focus on order.Karen O'Connor Fuddy-duddy Walkin' with God Ain't for Wimps: Spirit-Lifting Stories for the Young at Heart page 67-68 Refer to Gladwin's Men out of Asia (1947) for "Dr. Phuddy Duddy," modeled after a prominent anthropologist who poo-poos his theories.
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Jim Emerson of the Orange County Register called Halliwell "something of a grumpy old English fuddy-duddy [who] rarely has anything good to say about any movie made after 1960".
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Peter Lustig died in February 2016. Since 1981, Helmut Krauss had played the role of the fuddy-duddy and clumsy, but good-hearted neighbour Hermann Paschulke, a role that was kept after the takeover by Hammesfahr until Krauss died in August 2019.
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"Fuddy-duddy" is often used to refer to a man perceived as stodgy or foolish. It has been used throughout the 20th century, but its origins are unknown. The short form "fud" may relate to the Bugs Bunny cartoon character Elmer Fudd. The terms frump and old fart have also been used as words to designate similar qualities.
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NEVER underestimate the Hutch". Virgin Media profiled Tony, of his persona they state: "Pompous and irritating at times, Tony has also provided plenty of slapstick." They also comment on his relationships, writing: "After inexplicably romancing some of the numerous blondes in the series, Tony's suffered enough personal tragedy to garner some sympathy." What's on TV also profiled Tony stating: "The entrepreneur is a bit of a fuddy-duddy but he has never had any problems in the romance department.
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George is a little fuddy-duddy...He sits around and watches TV all day and goes fishing. George is only exciting onstage." In the BBC documentary Tammy Wynette: 'Til I Can Make It On My Own, Wynette's future husband George Richey recalled, "The writers who wrote for her, and there were about four of us who wrote regularly, would sort of write what was happening that day, and if she and Jones were having a tough time that's what we wrote about.
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Although Smith was raised as a Roman Catholic, in a 2008 interview, he identified as an atheist." Ian himself is the longest-serving member of the cast, and fans are often shocked when they meet him, expecting him to be an old fuddy duddy like his famous alter ego. "I can't argue with any of his morals on life," Ian says. "He believes in honesty, in not doing anybody any harm, and doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
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Katherine (Jacqueline Bisset) is an English photographer who, with her husband Patrick (James Fox), came to live at a coastal town on Rhodes before the tourists discovered it. Their thirteen-year- old daughter Chloe (Ruby Baker) grew up there, and even though Kath and Patrick have separated, they have both stayed on. He supports himself through his sculpture pieces, which Kath despises, and she, by her photography books featuring antiquities and peasant life, which he finds fuddy-duddy. Kath needs money; her latest book isn't selling.
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His significant popularity in Japan in the 2000s might be attributed to his "good old tough fuddy-duddy" character reminiscent of sheriffs in some 1960s American movies. Frye appeared in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia entitled "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops", in which he played a professional wrestler that was getting pummeled by Roddy Piper's character, "Da' Maniac". He is credited on IMDb for the role as "Wrestling Opponent". Frye also appeared in a new AT&T; mini-movie advertisement for the Blackberry Bold 9700 entitled "Stay One Step Ahead" during the 2009 holiday season.
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On the engagement of Lady Diana Spencer and the Prince, she was due to arrive at Albany House, where Adeane had a barrister's set. The staff expected octogenarian Lady Diana Cooper, but were bemused to find a much younger lady arrive in her Mini Metro and park perfectly. Princess Diana had a nervous start in a royal household, where she dismissed almost all of the staff. Adeane was made the Princess's Treasurer in 1981 on their marriage. Adeane was granted the additional appointment as private secretary to the Princess in 1984, following Oliver Everett's resignation. The alleged trouble started during the 1983 royal tour of Australia and New Zealand, when the Princess first expressed concern at leaving her children behind in London.Ocala Star Banner, Sat 12 January 1985 citing Daily Express The Daily Mirror reported her calling Adeane a "fuddy-duddy".Sportsman Review, Spokane, WA, USA, citing Daily Mirror (11 January 1985), p.
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With its predecessor subtly focusing on global peace, joy, and unity, Infinity Within is overtly political, as evidenced by the phrase "Let's face it, it's a pro-choice album" appearing on the album cover and more importantly, with outspoken tracks encouraging the protection of the environment ("I Had a Dream I Was Falling through a Hole in the Ozone Layer"), sexual liberation through safe sex ("Rubber Lover"), the failure of the judicial system ("Fuddy Duddy Judge") and the importance of voting ("Vote, Baby, Vote"). The song "Vote, Baby, Vote" was made into a public service announcement which advocated the band's mission for voter registration and their support of the Motor Voter Bill to ease voter registration. While some music critics may not have recognized it, the move to more heightened social awareness on the second album was not a departure from World Clique, but a natural progression for the band members. Inspired by the I Ching, Infinity Within is meant to be more self-reflective and to counteract the global view of World Clique, which lead singer Lady Kier felt was often misunderstood.
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