The word "clogs" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of footwear, typically made of wood and leather. For example: "I always wear clogs when I'm gardening to protect my feet from getting too wet or muddy."
It's been described as "the Hamptons with clogs" thanks to its popularity with rich Dutch and German visitors who buy up beach-front holiday homes and hang out in the seaside bars and cafés.
In the weirdo Windsor nursery of 1968 – think of it as Powers in the Attic – he would have called Prince Edward clever clogs.
See the way the handle on those pruning shears matches her gardening clogs?
When the Jyske Ensemble orchestra realised it was to shut down after 24 years, the musicians decided to play a concert without wearing shoes – after all, they had now "popped their clogs".
"From Dublin to Lublin, from Portugal to Pomerania, the pitchfork-wielding populists are converging on the Breydel building in Brussels – drunk on local hooch and chanting nationalist slogans and preparing to give the federalist machinery a good old kicking with their authentically folkloric clogs," Boris Johnson wrote in the Telegraph on Monday.
To which my reply is that making drugs illegal encourages organised crime, clogs the prisons (especially in America), increases corruption everywhere from Mexico to Afghanistan, and ignores the inexorable law of supply and demand.
"You get a lot of clogs," says Dr Jackson.
The same recipe pits the roads, clogs the drains and generally chips away at the quality of life for most Indians and Pakistanis.Nor is that all it does.
In English it is "clogs to clogs in three generations"; in Italian "from stables to stars to stables"; in Japanese "the third generation ruins the house"; and in Chinese "wealth does not survive three generations".
One day the prince went to the land of canals and clogs to parley with his fellow princes.
