Surefire, most commonly used as "Surefire Way" is a word with similar meanings to efficient, or effective, although can have a negative connotation as well as a positive one.
meaning definitly, of course. its gonna come out to be a good thing. positive.
boy A- dude okay were gonna go rob that chicken store, heres the plan
boy B- dude this plan is not sure fire!
boy A- yes it is! it is so sure fire! were gonna have all the chicken in the world!
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)