A salt tablet is a cure-all, mainly in men's sports. No matter what a man's injury, a salt tablet is one of three options available to a man to cure this injury.
1. Take a salt tablet
2. Rub dirt on it
3. Tape an aspirin to it
Player: Coach i think i broke my leg!
Coach: Take a salt tablet and get back in there!
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. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)