whippersnapper

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Of course the UK law might have changed a lot since I was a young whippersnapper.

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someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

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noun

someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

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noun

someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous

Example sentences

Of course the UK law might have changed a lot since I was a young whippersnapper.

Why you young whippersnapper! Back in my day it was called CLR, and those three letters were good enough for us!

So get off my lawn already, you young whippersnapper! !

Eh, what's that, you young whippersnapper? In my day we had to debug our difference engine with a flyswatter.

These young whippersnapper roboticists have it so easy these days, what with their new fangled flying robots. Back in my day, we were happy if we could get our robots to walk.

A whippersnapper may say he can do my job over a weekend, but delivering it is another thing entirely. I don't think we have to bring up Google.

It's funny--29 doesn't sound particularly young, but I'm really suppressing the urge to call you a whippersnapper.

Old enough to remember pre-google, young whippersnapper! When the idea went round in 2000 that pagerank wasn't the key to google's success, I checked: there was a difference, but not enough to really matter, in the searches I tried.

As a whippersnapper who only signed up 1141 days ago, I believe the quality of the best commentary is still as good, though the bottom has gotten bigger and worse. So far, good filtering that bubbles the best comments to the top is working at keeping the discussion readable.

I kind of feel like a "rassa-frackin' whippersnapper" disgustedly changing the radio station when stumbling on classical orchestral music. Then again I also feel a little dirty for comparing the likes of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven to Java...

The law on the books states that the dealerships are protected by the force of the State Police and should any young whippersnapper auto manufacturer, say, Tesla, come sneakin' into town and try to set up shop, well the dealers will be there with the full force of the state government behind them, to make sure Tesla crawls back into the hole it came from . .

I've been a boss, too, and sometimes you really do have to get people's attention with a 2x4---especially when dealing with young whippersnapper subordinates who have a high opinion of their own capabilities [I should know; I used to be one of those].