To engage in a dialogue or discussion with the intention of reaching a mutual understanding.
2. v. phrase
An argument used to persuade a teacher to change a failing grade to a passing one based on the student's exceptional past performance, sincere effort, and rigorous coursework.
1. Person 1: George Bush has underutilized diplomacy in relations with Iran.
Person 2. Seriously, throw some D's on that bitch.
2. "Soulja Boy, Chillin' Dog, Just got my report card. Looked at it, all Fs; took it to the teacher's desk. Throw some Ds on that bitch!"
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)