The truism The cobbler’s children always go barefoot succinctly conveys the idea that people who take care of matters for others or are competent professionally may neglect the same things at home. A similar phrase in Spanish translates as “In the blacksmith’s house, a wooden knife.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of ““In the Blacksmith’s House, a Wooden Knife”: A Spanish Counterpart to “The Cobbler’s Children Always Go Barefoot””
Grant, you know how in English we’ll say the cobbler’s children always go barefoot?
Mhmm.
Yeah.
It means that people don’t take care of the things at home even if they take care of them for others.
Professionally.
Yes.
Exactly.
I’d recently learned that there’s a Spanish equivalent that translates as, in the blacksmith’s house, a wooden knife.
Oh, a knife.
Isn’t that nice?
That’s very funny.
I I wonder if that applies to bookish people.
Right?
You work in a library, have no books at home.
I don’t I don’t know how that works.
Kinda doubt that’s the case.
That’s very much.
I don’t know any library that fits that at all.
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