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{{a|work|[[File:Clogs.jpg|thumb|Some clogs, yesterday]]}}{{d|Clogs|/klɒgz/|n|}} <br>
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1. A robust wooden shoe originating in the low countries, before it found forensic fame and fortune as an arcane {{tag|metaphor}} in the [[courts of chancery]], where one tries where possible to avoid [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. <br>
1. Robust wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the [[courts of chancery]], where one tries where possible to ''avoid'' [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. Clogs were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne weavers — who called them ''les [[Sabotage|sabots]]'' — but not so much for wearing as throwing angrily into the gears of a new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom|looms invented by Joseph Jacquard]] to bugger them up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to save their livelihoods. Such mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “''[[sabotage]]''”. Long-term, didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good. You can’t fight progress.
2. A robust wooden shoe from Belgium appropriated by Parisienne weavers — called by them ''un [[Sabotage|sabot]]'' — and thrown angrily into the gears of a new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom]] to bugger it up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to protect their livelihoods. Such mischievous clog-throwing in 19th century Paris became known as “''[[sabotage]]''” but, long-term, didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good alas.  
 


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Some clogs, yesterday
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Clogs
/klɒgz/ (n.)

1. Robust wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the courts of chancery, where one tries where possible to avoid clogs on the equity of redemption. Clogs were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne weavers — who called them les sabots — but not so much for wearing as throwing angrily into the gears of a new-fangled automatic looms invented by Joseph Jacquard to bugger them up, in a rather Cnut-like effort to save their livelihoods. Such mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “sabotage”. Long-term, didn’t do les saboteurs much good. You can’t fight progress.

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