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Chris -- 2018-04-11
To ‘pop your clogs’ is to kick the bucket, fall off your perch or, less euphemistically, simply die. Its origin is said to be the pawning or ‘popping’ of the wooden shoes which are no longer of any use to those who have passed on. In the eggcornish variant which substitutes ‘clocks’ for ‘clogs’ the imagery of passing time is clear. If your “time is up” there is no life left, and the folk-belief of a clock stopping at the point of its owner’s death is still familiar.
Was sure the old bugger popped his clocks a while ago. Guess not. Gandalf and elves all going too. Feel all alone all of the sudden. Frodo leaving too, ...
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Also when bunked in the queue by old people (fair enough they haven’t much time left before they pop their clocks but just no need! ...
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... not a little white one, but a big black one….six little months..six tradgic little months… then poor old angie is gonna pop her clocks, ...
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Why dont the young people of this world respect us who fought for their country, I hope to chage that before I pop my clocks. ...
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For me it sure conjures up the cartoon image of a broken clock with it’s hands dangling from interior springs that have popped through the face.
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