A person you try to avoid due to their social awkwardness or annoying personality. Specifically, an acquaintance whose presence is unwanted, but is too nice or polite to be rejected outright.
Orig. a hypothetical bridge to the moon constructed of Coca-Cola bottles. One end anchored to the Moon, the other dragging along the surface of the Earth, this bridge would be something to run from.
Krista is a moonbridge.
Look out, here comes the moonbridge!
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)