When something you try and do goes bad - you or it have "thawed out".
If you have done something and it didn't work - then it "thawed out".
If you try to bang a chick and don't get any luck - then you 'thawed out'.
Person 1: How did you go with that chick last night?
Person 2: I THAWED OUT bad!
or
Person 1: How was that party you had at your place on the weekend?
Person 2: It THAWED OUT
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)