A mixed drink consisting of 6 oz. of Sprite and 3 oz. of Gin
Partygoer: Man, you got any tonic water and limes?
Host: Nah man, just use Sprite.
Partygoer: What am I supposed to do with Sprite?
Host: Make a Poor Man's Gin and Tonic, fool.
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)