(v. t.) To make or mend coarsely; to patch; to botch; as, to cobble shoes.
(v. t.) To make clumsily.
(v. t.) To pave with cobblestones.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was able to cobble together a one-off £2.5bn package of support for business by shifting spending around and because the bankers' bonus tax has raised almost four times as much as expected.
(2) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
(3) But the scene in the 250-seater conference centre on an unassuming cobbled mews in central London was a far more serene affair.
(4) But throw the book at them and find all kinds of charges and cobble them together so that they’ll plea to a ‘lesser included’ is a technique that I think can sometimes be inappropriately used.” On January 11 2013, Swartz hanged himself.
(5) While having a coffee in the beautifully preserved, almost Disney-like, cobbled market square, he noticed me staring at a bright pink Trabant car parked up next to us.
(6) Much of the detail, however, could be got right quickly, by making internal changes in Whitehall or rewriting the Commons' rule book: allow MPs as a whole to appoint committee chairs in secret ballots, instead of in motions cobbled together by the whips; create more time for backbench bills; establish new conventions to restrict the guillotining of debate; extend the use of free votes; complete the half-hearted reform of the attorney general by freeing this partisan minister from providing supposedly independent legal advice.
(7) Further back there’s cobbled roads with white farm gates.
(8) The opposition has been cobbled together largely from politicians who have flip-flopped from various parties, including some who jumped ship from the incumbent party.
(9) The hotel has six individually-styled suites, which are cleverly incorporated into a building originally built by the Crusaders on a quiet cobbled lane.
(10) JJ Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness opens this week and it's a big, loud science fiction movie, cobbled together from the scripts of two Kirk-era movies, with action scenes rehashed from Abrams' last Trek outing.
(11) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(12) Night-time in Búzios is when its cobbled and immaculately manicured central area really comes alive.
(13) In later stage a "cobble stone" relief is demonstrable.
(14) We went with the grains of fashion: football became mainstream, cobbled streets were heritage, working class was a lifestyle choice, the north became a mini-break destination.
(15) The painful reality for the party is that its leader cobbled together an inchoate platform that masked fierce ideological differences in the ranks and hoped to steer it through an electoral window opened up by Lib Dem collapse and Ukip insurgency.
(16) More than 100 world leaders will have descended on Rio this week to sign up to some kind of high-level communique currently being cobbled together by droves of "sherpas" grinding their way through the most God-forsakenly inadequate draft statement I've ever seen .
(17) Sinn Féin could try to cobble together a new coalition with a host of independent, mainly leftwing deputies, many of whom are deeply suspicious of the republican party.
(18) It might not look like it from the government May is cobbling together, but I believe equality is going to storm straight to the front of the national agenda.
(19) Now in a state of advanced panic, they’ve cobbled together more devolved powers and sent David Cameron to Edinburgh to plead for the union: the embodiment of Tory rule without a mandate that is the main reason many yes voters will opt for independence.
(20) Families wash clothes and themselves on the side of the road, using water from boreholes, or cook pasta over open fires cobbled together from wooden debris.
Cobbler
Definition:
(n.) A mender of shoes.
(n.) A clumsy workman.
(n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across the country motorcycle taxi drivers, cobblers, parking attendants, construction workers and nursery teachers are vying for seats in the country's various legislatures.
(2) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(3) The same voice that told me over 50 years ago that the little cobbler boy should have been in school playing and learning with me is telling me now that compassion for the world’s children can be the unifying force that patches humanity’s soul and puts us on the right course again.
(4) Now we will sweep them away," said Mohan Lal, a 42-year-old cobbler in west Delhi.
(5) To which I can only say: this is more cobblers than you'll find on the back end of a Highland ram.
(6) He left Osmondthorpe secondary modern at 14 and worked as a cobbler's assistant and then as a clerk for an undertaker before, in 1950, getting a job as a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post.
(7) But the audiences at Toronto, which kicks off on Thursday, will be clapping eyes on not one but two Adam Sandler movies: The Cobbler and Men, Women & Children.
(8) Dane Skaife, 25, manager of Timpson's cobblers in Salford, which suffered £80,000 of damage and was closed for six weeks, says: "There's no one to blame.
(9) I tell him I'd heard he was actually making a living as a cobbler.
(10) For glaringly obvious legal reasons I cannot be remotely specific about the contents, but suffice it to say that several friends are mentioned and all the juicy bits (probably cobblers, but amusing for all that) are printed in red.
(11) The Birkenstock family cobblers business was founded in 1774 in the Rhine-side town of Bad Honnef, some 40km south of Bonn in Germany, and is still family-run today.
(12) My dream is of a world where every time someone whose income is in excess of several million a year claims publicly that "nobody works harder" than them, some sort of ridicule siren goes off across every part of the globe that has the luxury of a few minutes to read such cobblers.
(13) Also, you don't have all the make-up cobblers; as a woman, that's a big and very boring part of the job.
(14) Shops hit ranged from pawnbrokers and cobblers to a travel agent.
(15) Obviously anyone with even a passing acqaintance with Massimo Moratti will know that Mourinho is talking complete cobblers - if anyone involved in tonight's match is obsessed with winning the Champions League it's Inter's president.
(16) In December, Johnson called the allegations about the competition “a load of cobblers”.
(17) ‘Wouldn’t the children in the class below us benefit from our textbooks the same as we had – not to mention the cobbler boy and other children unable to attend school?’ Photograph: Alamy My friend and I rented a vegetable cart and walked around the neighbourhood convincing everyone to put their books in the cart rather than throw them away.
(18) His father Moses was an alcoholic and his mother, Eva Mogale, was the daughter of a cobbler cum minister of the Lutheran church.
(19) The real answer to my question to the cobbler boy’s father was not that some people are simply born to work but rather that some things in this world are unjust; and none more so than robbing children of their childhoods.
(20) When Cameron told the Conservative party conference “there’s no reward without effort; no wealth without work; no success without sacrifice”, he was talking cobblers.