Synonym for clown show. When a group of people behaves in a cringe manner/inappropriately or communally changing behavior and speech in order to relate to a certain theme.
I have a show that I need to put on for the powers that be. I will be sure to apply my clowngrease extra thick tonight...and be sure that I am fluffed appropriately to put on a good performance.
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)