Her standard outfit is a jacket with baggy trousers or calf-length skirt and flat-heeled, clodhopper shoes.

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Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror's Kevin Maguire questions the motives behind "clodhopper David Cameron's hokey-cokey on Europe".

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He tried to look the Robin Hood part by handing over some cash to a few clodhopper bank customers.

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As has been shown from Provence to Punjab, in Chile too the notion of the farmer as an unchanging clodhopper is bunk.

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