luke.warneminde (6/14/2012)
the original weavers in England destroyed the looms in protest of being replaced by unskilled machine operators.
Another story has the workers in the Netherlands throwing their sabots (shoes) into the gears of the looms, giving us...sabotage.
I love that sort of trivia 🙂
Maybe the expression "spanner in the works" might have been "sabot in the works"