When you receive a scholarship to learn to pilot hot air balloons in Seattle spend money on travel and lodging and find yourself driving the van watching balloons fly away. Left on the ground but there goes the balloon in the sky! Similar in meaning to pie in the sky! Buyer beware!
Watch out for this dude, his sick mind will turn this form of amusement into a perverse art form that would be considered offensive to most of the people who watch and many animals as well. He knows countless different animals shaped like a penis, and how to utilize them in conjunction with animals shaped like various other body parts including but not limited to: the vagina, the buttocks, the armpit, the breasts, and even an empty eye socket.
The clown I hired for my son's 14th birthday was a complete disaster since he turned out to be the patron saint of perverted looking balloon animals in mere disguise. My poor son was nearly traumatized. Having a mother embarrassing enough to hire a clown for his 14th birthday.
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)