The people-rule that when a person brings up a subject during a conversation, that person is obligated to share the story or subject in question.
Sally: Did you hear who got fired?
Joe: No, which teacher?
Sally: I really am not allowed to say...
Joe: Rule of Rabinowitz, you got no choice.
Sally: Aiight, it was Ms. Fish
Rabinovitz is used by many eastern european women to describe someone who seems ordinary, but due to his obssesive compulsive disorder, isn't a catch.
I would ride him all nightlong if he wasn't such a Rabinovitz.
Last night I went out with dave. We had a wonderful time but when we got to the car he had to turn the radio on and off 5 times, same with the headlights. I thing he's a Rabinovitz.
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)