old fogey

Lewis paints Ray as an old fogey who simply doesn’t get it and has tried to impose old-school financial standards on new-school operations such as FTX.

But sometimes, alas, a reluctant or confused old fogey must be persuaded.

It’s a bit startling to find musical works written from 1923 through 1964 in a single chapter near the end, but it makes a certain amount of thematic sense: Coward’s wildly successful 1950s nightclub stints in Paris, New York and Las Vegas reclaimed the songs from those shows as a major portion of his legacy and led to his renaissance in the 1960s as a grand old man of the theater after some years of being dismissed as a hidebound old fogey.

“It was really hard for me, for such an old fogey, to perform after the new generation,” he said after he secured his Olympic berth.

Yes, Biden is a little bit of an old fogey on pot issues who says he still has concerns about it even as he’s backed nationwide decriminalization.