A historically based reference to the true sources of power beneath appearances, that is, who is really in charge and pulling all the strings.
Although the Grabber in Chief was elected as the 45th President of the United States, this seemingly unpredictable phenomenon is a reflection of the Master Game at work.
The game played by minors in an attempt to find a twenty-one year old to buy them booze. Rarely successful, however most juvenile delinquents do it at least once in their lifetimes.
Teenager1: "My older sister said she'd be willing to buy for us."
Teenager 2: "I hope she doesn't flake, otherwise we'll have to play the Hey Mister Game."
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)