These are the sort of thoughts my grandfather might have had fifty years ago, and he was something of an anachronistic fuddy-duddy even then. |
You can't get a real idea of the noise and the atmosphere, and that's no exaggeration or an old fuddy-duddy thinking that everything was better in the good old days. |
Can a fine-dining restaurant in Minneapolis succeed if they ignore the all-important fuddy-duddy demographic? |
Perhaps I'm turning into a bit of a fuddy-duddy boring would-rather-stay-at-home kind of guy. |
In the market where these contemporary artists ply their trade, the age-old discipline of drawing human figures is considered a rather fuddy-duddy exercise. |
For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change. |