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a refusal so loud it builds empires of weekends and ends them with sticks.
means To hit something forcefully, or — in the labor sense — to collectively stop working as a form of protest.
from From Old English 'strican,' meaning to stroke, smooth, or go over a surface — a cousin of German 'streichen.' The violent sense of 'hit' grew from this idea of a sweeping, glancing motion. The labor meaning has a vivid nautical origin: sailors who 'struck' (lowered) their ship's sails refused to set out, and by the 18th century 'striking' came to mean downing tools in protest.
- bowling origin
- named for knocking all pins in one throw
- labor power
- weekends, eight-hour days won by walking off jobs
- lightning odds
- odds of being struck about one in a million yearly
- three strikes
- baseball's batter exits, no objection accepted
- hunger version
- refusing food turns the body into protest