What's the difference between cobbler and crispin?
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.
Crispin
Definition:
(n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.
(n.) A member of a union or association of shoemakers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, has called for the committee on arms exports controls to look into whether the UK has lived up to its obligations.
(2) Ruffer, who like Moulton called the recession early and has close links to hedge fund tycoon Crispin Odey, has taken a 29.5% stake in Better Capital.
(3) Crispin Blunt, who chairs the backbench foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
(4) Crispin Blunt spoke out after an extraordinary cabinet row broke out between Gove and Theresa May over how to tackle extremism.
(5) If the government truly has nothing to hide, then there is no need to restrict media access to the areas in question in northern Rakhine state,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior southeast Asia representative.
(6) Born Pauline Crispin in Liverpool, the younger daughter of an insurance company manager, she was educated at Merchant Taylor's Girls school at Great Crosby, Northampton High school, and Sutton High school.
(7) Crispin Blunt, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, said the delays had been because of “bureaucratic complexity”.
(8) It was a bit like Henry V and his St Crispin's Day speech before Agincourt.
(9) Crispin Glover , who played George, was really something.
(10) Sir Michael Bishop, the former chairman of Channel 4 , emerged tonight as the frontrunner to take the role of chairman at ITV after Sir Crispin Davis withdrew from the process.
(11) Sarah Wollaston MP (@sarahwollaston) #Boris was speaking the truth on proxy wars and it's time for all parties in the region to end the sectarian bloodbath December 8, 2016 Crispin Blunt, who chairs the foreign affairs committee, suggested Downing Street could have handled it better.
(12) • Kim Dotcom: 'I'm not a pirate, I'm an innovator' • Crispin Hunt slams Kim Dotcom as 'chubby Che Guevara' • Beware, copyright holders: the Kim Dotcom copyright saga isn't over Megaupload may be defunct, but Dotcom has since launched a successor cloud storage service called Mega, before moving on to work on other projects including digital music service Baboom, recording and releasing his own albums, and launching a political party in New Zealand, where he is fighting extradition to the US to face the criminal charges.
(13) And nothing will make it otherwise’ “No plan survives contact with the enemy,” said Crispin Blunt in Wednesday’s Commons debate on Brexit.
(14) Besides Carr, the panel included US anti-poverty campaigner Linda Tirado, US author and satirist PJ O’Rourke, international security analyst Lydia Khalil, and US defence and politics analyst Crispin Rovere.
(15) Crispin Blunt, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, was elected with a remit to look at the lobbying by both Palestinians and Israelis and the effect on British policy in the Middle East.
(16) On Thursday night, senior Conservatives including David Davis and Crispin Blunt called for a review of the way these cases are brought to court, saying it risks ruining men's lives when many smaller weak cases are gathered together to give the impression of a strong one.
(17) Crispin Hunt, former singer of the 1990s band Longpigs (and an FAC board member), knows that feeling all too well.
(18) Crispin Blunt said: "It's time to end Tony Blair's personal calvary as quartet envoy following his disastrous statesmanship in office on the Middle East.
(19) The Department of Education and Training said: “The department engaged the Australian Government Solicitor to represent it in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal [AAT].” “The cost for this service was $20,932.78.” The FOI applicant, Crispin Rovere, failed in his bid to obtain the government’s higher education modelling, which included the effect of the policy on students and public funding levels.
(20) The former Channel 4 chairman Michael Bishop and Sir Crispin Davis, the former chief executive of Reed Elsevier, both pulled out of the running within days of each other - Bishop after running a "thorough review" of the role using advisers Gleacher Shacklock.