Turn the dogs loose means to party as if it's your 16th birthday and your parents are away for the weekend and left the Liquor Cabinet open and you found their "Stash" during Spring Break and all your friends show up with 20 gallons of PJ made out of moonshine.
Hey y'all, let's get together this weekend and turn the dogsloose.
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)