Etymology

cobbler, keep to your last

Today it means: One should not criticise matters outside one's field of expertise; one should mind one's business. Full definition →

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The story

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.