Clogs: Difference between revisions

{{a|work|[[File:Clogs.jpg|thumb|center|450px|Some clogs, yesterday.]]}}{{d|Clogs|/klɒgz/|n| (Fr: ''Sabots''}} <br>

Stout wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the [[courts of chancery]], where one has always tried, where possible, to ''avoid'' [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. Clogs — in French, ''les [[Sabotage|sabots]]'' — were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne hand-weavers, but not for wearing so much as for throwing angrily into the gears of those new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom|looms invented by Joseph Jacquard]] with the goal of buggering them up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to save their livelihoods. Mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “''[[sabotage]]''”. Long-term, it didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good. You can’t fight progress.