This is the garbage energy and motivation that those who cannot or will never be emotionally successful use to try to stop those who CAN from reaching their happiness and potential. Fuck these people. Losers. Miserable sods. Need I type anymore?
Mom: "Well, you know that you have other things to consider instead of helping yourself in this difficult transition."
Adult Child: "I'm feeling very happy and secure when I am with this completely adjusted and trusted person."
Mom: "Here it is! Plain and simple. I can't so you can't."
Adult Child: "You miserable cow! Resentful is just the tip of the shitberg! Just stop talking."
Describes a situation where one is woefully and comprehensively overdue with a task or work assignment. An older cliche presumably referring to a parade scenario lead by a marching band.
I'm never going to finish the page one graphic in time, I'm so far behind I can't hear the band.
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)