Expresses refusal to support, condone, or participate in a certain activity or idea due to subject's lameness, stupidity, or conflict with personal beliefs.
William Shatner: What about those men who say 'do as I do and believe in what I say for your own good, or I'll kill you'? I can't get behind that!
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)