A phrase which describes multiple situations or people. You’re either MF-ing someone with a certain bit of class; or, depending upon the intonation, can be someone or something that you totally admire…
1) There’s no bettership out of the slip than the “Finest Kind”…
2) Yeah. That junkie… “finest kind”…
"Finestkind" is an all-purpose term for pretty much anything anyone has to say. It's “an expression of the trade.” It can mean anything from “that's cool” to “f--- you.” It is “the Swiss army knife of words.”
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)