When you have a bid secured in the bag and last second a snake slithers in and takes that bid up by less than 5 cents which you don't have.
Auctioneer: "$1500 going once... $1500 going twice..." Random Guy: "$1500.03!!!" Auctioneer: "Sold for $1500.03" Me: "What the fucking shit, I'm so god damn bidhurt"
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)