cobbler, keep to your last

English

Wooden lasts.

Etymology

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

Proverb

cobbler, keep to your last

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

   Synonym: shoemaker, stick to your last

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
• Italian: non ti allargare
• Latin: sutor, ne ultra crepidam
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skomaker, bli ved din lest

• Polish: szewcze, pilnuj kopyta
• Spanish: zapatero, a tus zapatos (es)
• Sranan Tongo: obia a no fu yu, no spiti na ini
• 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