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Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

A question posed by Yossarian in Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.

This seemingly rhetorical question is what one asks when one feels that everyone else is asking stupid questions and one wants to join in and/or point out how obviously stupid their questions are. Or, merely, because one wants to find out why so many people are working so hard to kill oneself.
Yossarian was a collector of good questions and had used them to disrupt the educational sessions Clevinger had once conducted two nights a week in Captain Black's intelligence tent with the corporal in eyeglasses who everybody knew was probably a subversive. Captain Black knew he was a subversive because he wore eyeglasses and used words like panacea and utopia, and because he disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating unAmerican activities in Germany.

Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him. A handful of other men were also interested, and the questions were many and good when Clevinger and the subversive corporal finished and made the mistake of asking if there were any.

“Who is Spain?”

“Why is Hitler?”

“When is right?”

“Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?”

“How was Trump at Munich?”

“Hi-ho beriberi!”

and “Balls!” all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer:

“Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”
by Jill Harris April 26, 2005
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put the screws on you

Someone who trys by manipulation to control the action or thoughts of another person.
Geez, are you going to do everything she says? Don't you have your own life? She's really put the screws on you!
by KROISIN September 29, 2007
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come home the kids miss you

a term you use when your down bad for someone especially if many people find them attractive, they all tend to say this
*sees someone attractive on my tiktok fyp*
me: come home the kids miss you
yasss
by iminlovewithmybestfriendlmao December 11, 2021
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The World is Your Oyster

An idiom from 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1600) by William Shakespeare.

-The person in question is literally influential to the point that he/she can be compared to having the world in his/her possession,

-The person in question has a lot of choice in some matter.
For your final project, you can choose from any of these assignments- The World is Your Oyster
by critical secant July 5, 2009
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You know the vibe but do the vibe know you is from popular nyc Vlog youtuber and gamer (justfanum) he released merch saying “yktvbdtvky” and you know the vibe but do the vibe know you.
“Yurrr wassup lil blood you know the vibe but do the vibe know youuuu?”

“I know the vibes and they sure know me
by Onsomeshitletavya May 13, 2019
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When The Moon Hits Your Eye Like A Big Pizza Pie

It's possible that it's amore. Some even say it's OMORI. I'm not sure though, do your own research.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie
That's amore
by userhandlegoeshere October 6, 2021
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save the drama for yo mama

It's telling someone to stop yappin', stop complaining about what's wrong with this, what's wrong with that, and why you've got it so hard.
I don't want to hear your sob story; save the drama for yo mama!
by BinkyJoe October 24, 2005
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