Usually a business prospect that you are thinking about doing business with then after some insightful thinking you disqualify them before even discussing business matters with them.
Could also be a potential boyfriend or girlfriend whom you like then before you even approach him/her you find out something awful about him/her that you cannot stand, you automatically disqualify them from being your boyfriend or girlfriend before you even talk to him/her.
John: " Look at that girl, isn't she hot?! I'd make her my wife."
James: " Yeah she is hot. You don't know Mary? She used to be a man then dated a rich guy who paid for her sex change."
John: What? For real? She is pre-disqualified then!
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)