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Pop Your Clogs, Clever Clogs

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Annie in Bend, Oregon, says that while living on a narrowboat in England several years ago, she encountered some intriguing slang: clever clogs, a slightly derogatory term for someone who’s a bit too smart for their own good, and pop your clogs, a euphemism that means “to die.” An earlier similarly sarcastic term was clever britchesThis is part of a complete episode.

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