Cobbler Phrases

Phrases

• A foot in both camps
• A load of cobblers
• Athlete's foot
• Beyond repair
• Boot camp
• Boot up
• Boots Of Spanish Leather (Bob Dylan song)
• Bound hand and foot
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Fleet of foot
• Foot in mouth
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Foot in the door
• Foot the bill
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost (line from nursery rhyme)
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Get off on the right foot
• Get off on the wrong foot
• Get your foot in the door
• Give someone the boot
• Hell for leather
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• If the shoe fits, wear it
• On the back foot
• On the wrong foot
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• One two buckle my shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• Put a foot wrong
• Put one foot in front of the other
• Put the boot in
• Put your best foot forward
• Put your foot down
• Put your foot in it
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Set foot in
• Shoot yourself in the foot
• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The boot is on the other foot
• The cobbler always wears the worst shoes
• The cobbler should stick to his last
• The mainspring in a Bulova is made to last 256 years or 146 leather straps - whichever comes first (Bulova Watches advertising slogan)
• The order of the boot
• The shoe's on the other foot
• The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot
• The sound of leather on willow (sound of the ball on the bat in cricket)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• To boot
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• When your shoes shine, so do you (Kiwi Shoe Polish advertising slogan)
• Work the rabbit's foot on