cobbler, keep to your last

English

Wooden lasts.

Alternative forms

shoemaker, stick to your last

Etymology

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

Proverb

cobbler, keep to your last

(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)
French: chacun son métier, les vaches seront bien gardées (fr)
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
Polish: no equivalent term in Polish, but see jeśli nie potrafisz, nie pchaj się na afisz
Spanish: zapatero, a tus zapatos (es)
Swedish: skomakare, bliv vid din läst

See also

Further reading

sutor, ne ultra crepidam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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