Grade A choker. Usually performs very well up until the time it counts, usually in a high stakes event such as a wrestling match to go to state. Can count on them until it really matters, and usually is illiterate.
Jeez, Hild really pulled a Nolan Throne this year in the state finals! He did last year, too. And the year before..
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)