when something sucks so far beyond normal. after all, what could suck worse than blowing a dead bear? Not much. Used in Western Canada and parts of Ontario.
"Heard you got busted at the border for pot. that really blows dead bears,eh?"
A phrase or saying that can be used when a situation or thing really sucks...badly. Can be extended to "THAT BLOWS DONKEY BALLS"...when it really sucks the big one.
Derick: I'm on call, so I probably won't make it to the concert tonight.
Maria: DUDE, That blows donkeys!
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)