I could almost fancy that she regrets that clodhopping fellow.
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Understandably, my wife became fed up with my clodhopping footwork and frequent sulks.
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And the wee bachle from Dennistoun lost to the clodhopping pugilist come Sunday's bell.
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A clodhopping version of Chase, the Moroder's theme from Midnight Express, only diminishes the enterprise.
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It makes something like The Hours, or worse, Far from Heaven, look very clodhopping indeed.
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Most of all, you gain a chance to become something more than a clodhopping plowman.
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Poor mother, some great ignorant, clodhopping wench who will frighten her into a nervous fit.
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What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! a clodhopping messenger would never do at this juncture.
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In the Indian tradition, their form of dance could be tripping the light fantastic above ours, not clodhopping beneath.
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I have to say here, that the corps de ballet were the biggest bunch of clodhopping hoofers I've ever seen.
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And how liberating to replace clodhopping plastic boots with delicate shimmying slippers and featherlight skis, gliding through a silent landscape.
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The tales in the Faustbuch were narrated crudely and were further debased with clodhopping humour at the expense of Faust's dupes.
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Thick cakes of mud Like parathas clung to our boots, and we killed each wireworm singly, If the clodhopping robin didn't pick it off first.
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Until we find the Yard's clodhopping size 12s have trampled all over our democracy which, for its shortcomings, remains one of the least corrupt in the world.
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They even managed to throw in elements of Lee Hazelwoodesque country noir without coming over like mutton-chopped Midlands hicks clodhopping around working men's clubs on Nashville night.
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But I shook my head steadily from side to side and kept my toes curled tightly so that even if they used force they would never get those clodhopping shoes on me.
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The film received mixed reviews. A reviewer for British Film magazine described the film as 'exuberantly acted' and a reviewer Cinemas Online stated that it contained 'some mesmerizing performances'. In contrast, Mark Kermode described the film as a 'an abysmal serial-killer thriller' with a 'clodhopping script'. Peter Bradshaw stated that 'if you've a soft spot for a certain British kind of retro-Hammer silliness there's some enjoyment to be had here'.
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"I was so nervous I couldn't sing", he told journalist Ray Connolly, "but I like the lyrics." According to author Ian MacDonald, in a scenario similar to Lennon's disappointment with "Strawberry Fields Forever", Lennon most likely rued the loss of "sentimental gentleness" he had envisaged for the piece, and, overly passive to his songwriting partner's suggestions, allowed the arrangement to become dominated by McCartney's "glittering countermelody". MacDonald views the bridge portions as the "most effective" sections, through their subtle use of harmonised drone and "featherweight bass", and bemoans the reversion to "clodhopping ... three-chord 4/4 rock" over the choruses. He concludes by saying that the track "succeed[s] more as a glamorous production (voice and guitar through the Leslie cabinet; echo and varispeed on everything) than as an integrated song".
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