Mahinda Rajapaksa's last coalition was cobbled together with crossover members from several parties, including the UNP and the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna.The Alliance's path was smoothed by the fact that the president's main opponent, General Sarath Fonseka, was forced to conduct his group's campaign from under heavy guard in a navy camp.
Supposedly, as reported as fact by an all too credulous Times reporter, Motoko Rich, Hemingway's last wife Mary cobbled A Moveable Feast "together from shards of the unfinished manuscript he left behind.
"Maple Leaf Rag," it has been said, was not actually Graham's last work but something cobbled together by her company to supply a last work — and an audience-friendly one — when she was too old (ninety-six) to do so.
Gobbler, Cobbler's understudy, died in February.
Doesn't his costume look like something your middle-school self would have cobbled together last minute before Halloween?
To defeat Mr. Villaraigosa in Tuesday's mayoral election, City Attorney James Hahn cobbled together one last victory for the old Los Angeles.
Our cobbler hero's shoes are hand-stitched, his lasts hung from the beams of a half-timbered shop that heaves with books, a battered upright piano, a coffee pot.
Let the cobbler stick to his last.
Shouldn't the cobbler stick to his last?
In 1964, a cobbler sticking to his last, Stoppard wrote a ninety-minute TV play called "This Way Out with Samuel Boot," which he equipped with a pair of Boots, who represent diametrically opposed attitudes toward material possessions.
This would make a plea for constant and direct involvement of social scientists and in fact to the notion of the old saying: 'Let the cobbler stick to his last'.
