To give a simple task to someone highly over-qualified - originally finding the best percussionist available to play sleighbells in the chorus of a Christmas song.
Have you seen Jay's art? He's too good to be painting sets. I see some sleighbelling going on...
Jay's been sleighbelling with the choir again. He's a Grade 8 and they get him on a part that a toddler could play.
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)