Term used when you've done all that you can on a particular project when the deadline comes. You haven't completed everything, but you've done all you can. Refers to a cowboy at a rodeo who throws up his hands when his time is up and falls off the bucking bronco.
Jason: "Hey Shawn, did you complete the TPS report? It was due today."
Shawn: "No, I needed some more information that never came, so I called it rodeo done and submitted the report."
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)