Colloquialism for lying named after the Prime Minister of Australia after Facing multiple accusations of lying, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is not dishonest then went on Radio and confessed to Neil Mitchell show: "Have you ever told a lie in public life?"
Scott Morrison: "I don't believe I have no, no."
Yeah mate he pulled a scotty, he said he wasn't in Hawaii but his Instagram stories tell a different story.
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)