The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25913   Message #307640
Posted By: GUEST,Kit
28-Sep-00 - 06:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: curious expressions
Subject: RE: BS: curious expressions
I've always the origins of the word "sabotage" interesting. Comes from the workers' revolution in France. The French word for clog being "sabot", they used to chuck their clogs in the machinery to cause it to stop. Then we stole it for a generic term in English. Clever, eh?