When punters in the US and the UK are betting whether Democratic-run “blue states” or Republican-led “red states” are likely to yield a greater proportion of infections and fatalities come 11/3.
Latest US results showed that around 53% of deaths have so far occurred in "blue" states and 47% in "red" ones. It’s no wonder that bookmakers are frustratingly changing the odds every other day, by constantly asking: “Is Covid-19 Blue or Red?”
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)