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

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)
• 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

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

Further reading

• sutor, ne ultra crepidam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia