(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.
Souter
Definition:
(n.) A shoemaker; a cobbler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ann Gloag, who is listed along with her brother, Sir Brian Souter, as being worth £1bn, is the only businesswoman on the list, with the rest either inheriting or gaining billionaire status through marriage.
(2) Take the farce that is the rail industry, where taxpayers stump up billions for the infrastructure and the upgrades, while tycoons such as Richard Branson and Brian Souter put in hardly any investment , and always have the option in hard times of walking away.
(3) Thirty-three patients had thirty-four consecutive primary arthroplasties, with use of the Souter-Strathclyde cemented unconstrained prosthesis, for severe rheumatoid arthritis of the elbow.
(4) The Opinion was written by Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter.
(5) The Souter zonal radiographic assessment system for identification of radiolucencies at the bone-cement interface was utilized; there was no significant difference in radiolucencies between ulnar components backed with metal and those that were not backed with metal.
(6) The Stagecoach chief executive, Brian Souter, has accused the department of being "either dysfunctional or deceitful" in its handling of a contractual dispute over its South West Trains franchise.
(7) So can Virgin's Richard Branson and Stagecoach's Brian Souter.
(8) Scots managers have become the models for rationalisation: Adam Crozier is shaking up the Royal Mail, Brian Souter runs South West Trains.
(9) Carole Souter Chief executive, Heritage Lottery Fund • So Jeremy Hunt "promised to get rid of audience development targets in the arts".
(10) Sir Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, the siblings who founded the Stagecoach transport empire, share a fortune of £1bn – an increase of £270m on last year.
(11) Its chairman, Brian Souter, notoriously said he would rather "drink poison" than enter into such an agreement.
(12) That is what GNER did with the East coast mainline that the public had to step in and save – and which the government has just awarded to Branson and Souter .
(13) Ginsburg has said the two justices are “not as effective” at keeping her awake as former justice David Souter – “at the first sign, he’d give me a solid pinch”, she said in 2010 .
(14) It backed the right of Catholic adoption agencies to snub gay couples, and took funds from the evangelical businessman, Brian Souter , who made such a noise about clause 2A (Scotland's section 28).
(15) Although the SNP and Salmond's nationalist government have won public and political endorsements from senior and wealthy business figures in Scotland, including the Stagecoach owner, Sir Brian Souter, and the multimillionaire and entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter, the launch focused on proving its centre-left credentials in order to attract Labour , republicans and Green party supporters.
(16) It is not known whether they were involved in any of the shootings, but their unofficial blog, ShinyCapstar, describes the atmosphere that October at Camp Souter in Kabul: "The overriding threat is that of suicide bombers of which there have been a number in the recent past."
(17) 13 Souter-Strathclyde unconstrained elbow prostheses for rheumatoid arthritis were followed for 5 (1-9) years.
(18) Electorally it suits Alex Salmond for the SNP to be perceived as centre-left or social democratic while he avidly courts rich men such as Donald Trump and bus tycoon Sir Brian Souter.
(19) In their opinion on the case, Justices O'Connor, Kennedy, and Souter eloquently defend constitutional protection of the right to make intimate decisions like continuing or ending a pregnancy.
(20) Twenty-three elbows in 17 rheumatoid arthritis patients have undergone unconstrained Souter-Strathclyde elbow replacements since March 1984.