whenever you tell you parents you're gonna give the dog a bath. You ask your girlfriend to help. You close the door saying "mom we dont want the dog to get out", then lock it turn on the water and the radio. You then participate in anything you want to do, because you are "giving the dog a bath".
"Hey Megan. Do you mind helping me? Im giving the dog a bath."
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)