bicycle clips
trouser clips

C: Oh, rubber trousers, held down with bicycle clips.

Even the bicycle clips were magnetic!

Agricultural workers, their trousers fastened to their ankles with bits of string or bicycle clips.

Just pop the dead bulb in a hermetically sealed, padded canister and put on your bicycle clips.

Hang up the bicycle clips, sit back and enjoy a bit of pottering in the garden and long afternoon naps.

Meek recorded the sound with five microphones he had fixed to the banisters with bicycle clips.

Or possibly bicycle clips.

The Genetic Academic (Baritone) "wears bicycle clips and a helmet".

Bicycle clips may refer to:

Casually dressed, he entered Gaywood Rectory looking as if he had just taken off his bicycle clips.

He wore long white duck trousers instead of shorts, and had pulled his white socks up over the cuffs and secured them with bicycle clips.

Bicycle clips, also called trouser clips, are small C-shaped pieces of thin metal worn around the ankle when cycling in trousers.

Despite his diktats, Mr Mitchell himself was said to sometimes hold meetings in his office without any shoes and still wearing his bicycle clips.

When he wheels his bicycle into a hallway, bicycle clips attached to his trousers, he has come a long way from "Easy Rider."

He stood, his trouser legs hoiked up over his ankles, as if he were wearing bicycle clips, hands clasped, voice utterly despairing.

Mr Malcolm Fraser, the ultimate speaker of the day, called his talk 'Corduroy trousers, stainless steel bicycle clips'.

"Now, give me three Hoy bicycle clips, two Dame Kelly vests and one signed photo of Lord Coe."

If you own a worn jumper with leather elbow patches and a pair of bicycle clips, then I’m sure this house will suit you right down to the ground.

In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen's scripts, he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea.

Martin caused a bit of stir the next Monday night when he cycled to the Olympia, walked through the stage door, hung up his bicycle clips, and went straight out on stage to sing.

Having made his case, he emerged from the front door, stood for a few seconds so that the curious crowd could speculate on his identity, and then put on his bicycle clips and pedalled off.

To find out more about Critical Mass, I dusted off my bicycle clips, got on to my 20-year-old boneshaker and wobbled across Waterloo Bridge to the assembly point on London's South Bank.

Other legends were not quite so lively: Frank McLintock was once staying at the Dorchester Hotel and spotted Elizabeth Taylor in the lobby, only for the actress to lean over and tell him he had forgotten to remove his bicycle clips.

After assignments in Vienna and Bangkok, he was posted to the United Nations mission in 1963, where he was known for his flamboyant style and a penchant for seersucker suits, bright shirts and bicycle clips, dress considered unorthodox by Foreign Office standards.

Not a don from Brooklyn or Little Italy (though he was able to make himself welcome there, too) but a don from one of the poorer and more racy and intrigue-ridden Oxbridge colleges, with his bicycle clips and Latin and Greek tags and silvered locks and beaming spectacles.