When a person taking about eating massive amounts of food at all you can eat, for hours on end. But then stops before finishing their first plate when the time comes.
"You better not John out again at the buffet tonight, that's just tossing your money away"
a phrase derived from the occasion when one man, who many now know, flopped out his cock to kids at his fat sons sleepover. It is now used when anything is got out,collected,passed and most definitely, flopped.
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)