A phrase used to describe a person whose bottom half of his body has been permanently paralyzed due to either a birth defect or an injury, justlike the respective author and screen-playwright of the autobiography and film "Born on the Fourth of July," Ron Kovic.
Roy: Dude, I saw Ron the other day and he couldn't move an inch with his own legs!
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)