To go through hard times with no better perspective. To be bankrupt, badly dressed and stinky because you`ve just had a huge scandal at work and the boss (who saw you) decided to fire you. It goes for men and women alike.
My boss fired me! Man, I never though I`ll blow the horse in my puss/ass! I think I`ll sink quite a few tonight.
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)