Something you would say to describe how much trouble or problems you have gotten yourself into.
Leah: Oh no! We got dirt on mums new dress.
Sophie: Shit! What should we do? There isn't enough time to wash it before the party!
Leah: This is a quagmire of epic proportions!
When your procrastinating boyfriend fails to reserve the suite at the best hotel in town the night your husband finally lets you go out with "the girls"! Dumb ass!
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)