English Explanatory Dictionary

cobbler, keep to your last

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb
  1. One should not criticise matters outside one's field of expertise; one should mind one's business.

Word forms

cobbler, keep to your last

Etymology

From last (“a tool for shaping shoes”), related to the Latin phrase sutor, ne ultra crepidam.

Synonyms

shoemaker, stick to your last

Related words

horses for courses stick to one's knitting stick to one's last ultracrepidarian
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