Posted by Ken Waldron
on July 11, 2024, 7:31 pm, in reply to "Newspaper headlines after July 4th heralded Starmer's win as a St Crispin's Day moment"
St Crispin alongside his twin St Crispinian were the patron saint(s) of cobblers: how apt.
The origin of the depreciative btw is cockney rhyming slang. "cobblers awls" = "balls."
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