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| ever busy, ever bare (he who makes (expensive) things for others, cannot afford to make them for himself); the shoemaker's wife is the worst shod; none more bare than the shoemaker's wife and the smith's mare; it's a case of a cobbler without shoes; the cobbler's wife is the worst shod (дословно: Жена сапожника обута хуже всех); the shoemaker's child always goes barefoot (igisheva); the shoemaker's family goes barefoot (igisheva); the shoemaker's son always goes barefoot (igisheva); the shoemaker's son goes barefoot (igisheva); the cobbler's children go barefoot (igisheva); a shoemaker is always ill shod (igisheva); a wheelbarrow without a wheel (igisheva); the cobbler always wears the worst shoes (igisheva); the shoemaker's wife goes barefoot (igisheva) | |||