Converse of object

• say: He's talking, dare I say, utter cobblers.

• talk: Anyway, someone else's turn now to tell me I'm talking cobblers.

• make: To make the cobbler rub the fat and the flour together.

• join: Meanwhile, Lawrie Dudfield from Hull and defender Tom Smith from Rotherham have both joined the Cobblers on free transfers.

• see: I saw the cobbler 's boy carry home a pair of boots there this morning.

Adjective modifier

• old: Posted by: Stuart | January 7, 2004 01:17 PM BMI is a load of old cobblers.

• local: Your local friendly cobbler will stitch it for a couple of quid.

• complete: They were also, of course, complete cobblers.

• utter: He's talking, dare I say, utter cobblers.

• absolute: Mr Swan spoke absolute cobblers all the way there.

• total: You can't, and you're more likely to come across a load of total cobblers first.

Modifies a noun

• shop: William's father was barely literate and they used to attend lessons together at Hugh Kerwin's cobbler shop.

Noun used with modifier

• village: The thatched building contains many relics, including a village cobbler 's tools.

• shoe: Like him, a shoe cobbler for more than half a century.

• fruit: In fact, a sip tasted like a mouthful of fruit cobbler.

Possessives

• shop: They moved to Lincoln where John opened a cobbler's shop at 34 Silver Street.

• workshop: The house was originally a butcher's shop and the basement the abattoir and meat store, also a cobbler's workshop.

• awl: The rhyming links ' cobbler's awls ' with ' balls ' , i.e. slang for testicles.

Preposition: by

• trade: Cooper was a Baptist preacher and cobbler by trade and had an insatiable appetite for all kinds of reading.