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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 originnamed for knocking all pins in one throw
labor powerweekends, eight-hour days won by walking off jobs
lightning oddsodds of being struck about one in a million yearly
three strikesbaseball's batter exits, no objection accepted
hunger versionrefusing food turns the body into protest