Another unusual saying - popping your clogs
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (347845)
Rockingham, Australia
March 9, 2025 8:17am CST
On Antiques Roadshow, one lady was asked what would happen to her pieces of jewellery. She said they’d go to her daughter when she ‘popped her clogs’ meaning when she died.
What an unusual saying. I hadn’t heard it in years. I googled it but it seems the origin is unknown or at best just a guess. You hear ‘popping off’ from time to time in the sense of going off to do something.
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@wolfgirl569 (112621)
• Marion, Ohio
6h
That is different. I thought getting angry when I first read it.
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@Ronrybs (20152)
• London, England
2h
I guess it must have something to with clogs. There was a time when they were common footwear in the Midlands of the UK. I feel sure that is where the expression clogging up the works comes from when disaffected workers threw their clogs into the machinery
@FourWalls (72025)
• United States
4h
All, British/Australian colloquialisms. Not that American ones are any better….
I looked it up, too…seems they tamed it down some from “eternal rest” to just “get some rest.”
I looked it up, too…seems they tamed it down some from “eternal rest” to just “get some rest.”
@DaddyEvil (142835)
• United States
4h
I've heard that saying before but not since I was a teenager.
@LooeyVille (45)
• United States
3h
I've never heard that expression. I've heard:
taking a dirt nap
kicking the bucket
passing away
@lilacskies (8839)
• United States
3h
I've never heard of that saying in my life. What a strange saying.
