When someone gets so lost in the fantasy land created around a situation that they become out of touch with reality, or in other words: getting lost in the sauce.
“The owner of that local business was counting sheep when he thought he would be able to start operating scams on his clients while simultaneously increasing net sales”
A term useally used for discribing sex but can be used for anying else.
Person A:You weren't suposed to count the sheep with her.
Person B:You call sex counting the sheep.
A:I call everything counting the sheep including people, Sheep
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)