Are you a clever clog? Have you ever been clogged?
I don't what that words mean, but they can call you whatever, you are still awesome and smart to me!!
Seriously I have read your posts (most of the time I have to google words for definitions LOL English is my second language), you have a brilliant mind..!!!!
Its clever clogs (plural). Clogs are shoes worn by working people especially up here in the North. 'Sparking clogs' was the term used by people who made sparks from the metal 'cegs' underneath the clogs to stop them wearing out too quickly. I just about remember people wearing them. If you were considered, 'too clever by half', a 'clever clogs' it was a slight criticism, sort of like you were showing off superior intellect in an environment that certainly did not need it (the cotton mills). Of course that was bollocks, it was only because people stood up and were counted that we no longer have 6 year olds working 16 hour days in appalling conditions. I am very very proud of my clever clog ancestors.
I hate anti intellectualism disguised as virtue like that n the Bible often promotes. Curiosity killed the cat is another one parents spout when their kids asking too many questions, but the rest goes "but satisfaction brought it back."
No, but only because I don't hang out with enough English people, apparently.
I have been called clever, and also called a smart ass, but I have never been called a clever clog. I don't even know what it means.