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Sentences with cobblers

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  • A load of old cobblers
  • Then she only goes and kicks me right in me cobblers, don’t she!
  • A free barber operated while cobblers repaired boots.
  • Lady Bay is one of three legal nude beaches in Sydney (the others are Obelisk Beach and Cobblers Beach at Middle Head).
  • Stop talking cobblers. Load of old cobblers
  • Much as Flinders Lane's Nicholson Building evolved into a home for jewellers, cobblers and independent fashion designers.
  • Hindus have traditionally looked down on manual workers such as barbers, weavers, cobblers, carpenters, gardeners and potters — all dalits.
  • The use of cobblers meaning 'nonsense' is so mild that hardly anyone these days is likely to be offended by it. Most people are probably unaware of its rhyming-slang association with 'balls', and therefore take it at its face value as a more colourful synonym for 'nonsense'. The classic formulation 'a load of (old) cobblers' seems to be particularly popular in the tabloid press
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