discription of a man whom god has not graced with the good looks of Jared Leto but has given the bank balance of Bill Gates, thus making the aforementioned individual attractive.
"That Roman Abramovich, Chelsea football club owner, jeeze, what he lacks in looks he makes up for in bucks."
"Oh good Lord, that Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, what he lacks in looks he makes up for in bucks, kinda."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)