a hobo salutation, usually given as advice or in parting. it is a reminder not to hit the hooch too hard. Drinking can be a healthy way to pass time and socialize, just make sure it’s a subtle as opposed to an overt contributor. The biggest problem with overly liberal use it is often the impetus behind abuse of all colours. Fighting, embarrassing falls, TMI; they’re all the result of excess libations.
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)