Used with humor, as a simple statement, in a conversation when you strongly disagree with the majority. Originally a French term used in psychiatry to describe a mental disorder in which two or more associated persons share the same delusion. In other words, you are saying "The two of you share the same delusion." Translated "madness between two."
Two others state "G. Dub is an excellent public speaker." In your disagreement, you respond with "Folie a deux!"
Yeah, you know, I wasn't going to say anything but (since you brought it up) it's a little pretentiousinnit? Not that I'm not pretentious but...
Hym "God, don't even get me start on the French... Folie à Deux? I bet the first scene is Arthur buying a prop-revolver that shoots out a flag thay says 'Bang' Ha!"
Iam "Oooooh! It's a 'Folly of psychology' reference. Right? Remember that one? That's a pretty old one. I'm surprised he remembers that one."
Hym "Oooooohhhh.... Still pretentious just... It's me... I'm having a hard time not feeling slighted by that...." 😑
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)