When one takes nickles and boils them in water and then places them in a bag of sorts, such as a tube sock. When beating a person with a hot bag of nickels no bruising will occur no matter how hard you hit them as long as the nickels stay warm.
When my kids get on my nerves I simply beat them about the face and neck with a hot bag of nickels because it will not leave a mark.
When a person is so (ugly) or has alot of marks on their face that their face looks like they got hit in the face with a bag of hot nickels.......the hot nickels would leave disfiguring marks.
Yo man, she's so (ugly) that her face looks like she got hit in the face with a bag of hot nickels
His acne left his face so effed up that he looks like he got hit in the face with a bag of hot nickels
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)