(1) to obtain clarity of thought or extemporaneous enlightenment, (2) to experience ease of difficulty, (3) to leave an arduous state of mind or being.
I had to crawl up out some cheese on this paper on Shakespeare and Chaucer.
My team crawled up out some cheese with a tie-breaking score.
I find myself crawling up out some cheese on Fridays and Sundays when I can relax.
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)