To do the bare minimum through sheer force of will.
i.e. just show up
Origin: in many University seminar classes, one gets five "participation marks" out of a possible 10 for merely attending the class.
Ben: Ugh man I hate my family and it's Thanksgiving!
Brian: So? Go for the five - eat dinner, hug your grandma, and peace out!
Ben: Yes. I will go for the five.
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)