The Clays and Clay Industries of Wisconsin

Collins a claim check./ /The boy put the dry cleaning claim check in his billfold./ /The man told Mary the pictures would be ready Friday and gave her a claim check./ [clamp down]{v.}, {informal} To put on strict controls; enforce rules or laws. /After the explosion, police clamped down and let no more visitors inside the monument./ /The school clamped down on smoking./ /When the crowds became bigger and wilder, the police clamped down on them and made everyone go home./ [clam up]{v.}, {slang} To refuse to say anything more; stop talking. /The suspect clammed up, and the police could get no more information out of him./ [class] See: HIGH-CLASS, SECOND CLASS. [clay] See: FEET OF CLAY. [clay pigeon]{n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; an easy target that doesnt move. /All he can shoot is a clay pigeon./ 2. A person who, like a clay pigeon in target practice, is immobilized or is in a sensitive position and is therefore easily criticized or otherwise victimized. /Poor Joe is a clay pigeon./ 3 ...»