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单词 let the cobbler stick to his last
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let the cobbler stick to his last

proverb People should only concern themselves with things they know something about.My advise to the company: let the cobbler stick to his last.
Translating Latin ne sutor ultra crepidam, variant of ne supra crepidam sutor iudicaret 'the cobbler should not judge beyond his shoe', attributed to the painter Apelles of Kos in response to criticism from a shoemaker in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (ad 77)
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