The type of expression that does not sound very good in everyday speak, but works very well and makes more sense in a boardroom with the corporate crowd.
Rick: Did you really ask me if I'm emotionally in the red or black today? That's so dumb.
Kyle: Ya but that line Smells So Good In A Boardroom. Suits love it.
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)