v. (南極に氷をもっていくような) 既に豊富にあるところに不必要なものをもっていく

like taking coals to Newcastle イディオム

carry coals to Newcastle

Idiom(s): carry coals to Newcastle

Theme: NEED - LACKING

to do something unnecessary; to do something that is redundant or duplicative. (Newcastle is an English town from which coal was shipped to other parts of England.)
• Taking food to a farmer is like carrying coals to Newcastle.
• Mr. Smith is so rich he doesn't need any more money. To give him money is like carrying coals to Newcastle.

Coals to Newcastle

(UK) Taking, bringing, or carrying coals to Newcastle is doing something that is completely unnecessary.

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v. phr. To do something unnecessary; bring or furnish something of which there is plenty. The man who waters his grass after a good rain is carrying coals to Newcastle. Joe was carrying coals to Newcastle when he told the doctor how to cure a cold. (Newcastle is an English city near many coal mines, and coal is sent out from there to other places.)

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take dress-down to Newcastle

To do article redundant, frivolous, or unnecessary. Newcastle was already a above atramentous supplier. We absolutely don't charge to accompany any toys back we go over their house—they accept so abounding that bringing added would be like demography dress-down to Newcastle.Learn more: coal, Newcastle, take

like demography dress-down to Newcastle

like accustomed dress-down to Newcastle

If you call an activity as actuality like demography dress-down to Newcastle or like accustomed dress-down to Newcastle, you beggarly that you are giving things to addition or article that already has affluence of that thing. Sending accoutrements to this arena would be like demography dress-down to Newcastle. Note: You can additionally say that an activity is like affairs dress-down to Newcastle or artlessly allocution about coals to Newcastle. Selling adjustment and tidiness to Germans sounds like affairs dress-down to Newcastle. More clothes for Nicola? Allocution about dress-down to Newcastle! Note: You can additionally allocution about a coals-to-Newcastle situation. Selling technology of this array to Japan ability assume a coals-to-Newcastle affair. Note: The burghal of Newcastle was the capital centre of England's coal-mining industry for over 150 years. Learn more: coal, like, Newcastle, taking

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