cobbler, keep to your last

cobbler, keep to your last

English

Wooden lasts.

Alternative forms

• shoemaker, stick to your last

Etymology

Related to the Latin phrase Sutor, ne ultra crepidam.A last is a tool for shaping shoes.

Proverb

cobbler, keep to your last

1. (idiomatic) Do not criticise matters outside your field of expertise; mind your own business.

Translations

do not criticise matters outside your field of expertise

Danish: skomager, bliv ved din læst Dutch: schoenmaker, blijf bij je leest Finnish: suutari pysyköön lestissään (fi) German: Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten (de) Hungarian: a cipész maradjon a kaptafánál Latin: sutor, ne ultra crepidam Norwegian: Bokmål: skomaker, bli ved din lest Spanish: zapatero, a tus zapatos (es) Swedish: skomakare, bliv vid din läst

See also

• stick to one's knitting
• stick to one's last

Further reading

• ultracrepidarianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia