noun
General Slang
cobblers' awls
· noun · cockney
Balls — and by extension, total nonsense.
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Definitions
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Rubbish. Nonsense. Bollocks dressed up in a flat cap. When someone says 'a load of (old) cobblers' they're calling it bullshit — the rhyme to 'balls' got buried so deep it now passes on daytime telly.
“He reckons he's mates with Lewis Hamilton — load of old cobblers.”
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Balls, literally — the testicles. The original rhyme, still used straight by older Cockney speakers.
“Mind his cobblers with that football.”
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cobblers' awls In A Sentence
He reckons he's mates with Lewis Hamilton — load of old cobblers.
Mind his cobblers with that football.
Origin & Usage
Cockney rhyming slang where 'cobblers' awls' (the pointed tools used by shoemakers) rhymes with 'balls'. Shortened to just 'cobblers' so cleanly that most users have no idea they're swearing.
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