When you accidently make two plans/dates for the same night or day.
Ryan: "What are you doing next Friday night?"
deth: "Oh, i'm going to the artwalk with Heidi...Oh, crap! I was supposed to go see this band with someone else the same night..! Looks like I've doublebooked myself again.""
A term used by someone to get out of a commitment at the last minute due to ignorance, lack of communication or being strong-armed by another individual. People who use doublebooked as an excuse for such an act usually try to lay blame on anyone but themselves, such as a family member or friend, instead of taking responsibility for their disappointing behavior.
He told the group of friends that we was doublebooked two days before the concert, even though it had been planned for nearly a year.
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)