when you're driving down the freeway when its pouring rain, and you go under an overpass or through a tunnel and the rain pauses for a second or two.
its quite exhilarating.
"Wow that was a long downpause, that overpass wasn't even that thick."
"ya that's because traffic is moving so slow"
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)