Both have a deep connection with the down-trodden masses.

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As always happens in such cases, there are some opposite numbers to those short sellers: value investors looking to buy a cheap stock unfairly trodden down by Mr. Market.

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The grapes are trodden within it and the juice that flows out is channelled down wooden pipes into holes in the cellar floor.

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