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Carry Coals to Newcastle

To bring extra, to do anything pointless and needless

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  • In Newcastle, there are several mines of coals so it will be pointless to bring more coals over there. This idiom is used for such cases for instance bringing snowballs to people of North Pole.
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Teaching a teacher is like carrying coals to Newcastle.

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Submitted on February 25, 2019

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carry coals to newcastleTo do something that is unneeded or redundant.
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