bicycle clip 
noun
Each of a pair of metal clips worn by a cyclist round their ankles to prevent their trouser legs from becoming entangled with the bicycle chain.Those whose mothers had obliged and tapered their trousers - which pretty much consisted of doing with a zigzag stitch what a bicycle clip does to the bottom of a trouser leg - would stand a little apart and relish their cool....
- The bicycle clips were on - he had taken them from me.
- He'll be the one with the brown trousers and the bicycle clips.
- totemist
- totemistic
- totem pole
- toter
- totes
- to that effect
- to the bad
- to the best of my belief
- to the best of one's ability
- to the best of one's knowledge
- to (the best of) someone's knowledge
- to the bitter end
- to the bone
- to the contrary
- to the core
- to the day
- to the death
- to the effect that
- to the exclusion of
- to the finish
- to the fore
- to the full
- to the gills
- to the gunwales
- to the letter