coals to newcastle

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف coals to newcastle في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

A pointless venture, in the sense of sending something to a place where it's made, or where they already have an abundance

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

something brought unnecessarily to an area where the thing is already plentiful (such as taking ice to Antarctica)

الواصلة

coals to New·cas·tle

التركية النطق

kōlz tı nukäsıl

النطق

/ˈkōlz tə ˈno͞oˌkasəl/ /ˈkoʊlz tə ˈnuːˌkæsəl/

علم أصول الكلمات

() Newcastle upon Tyne (in Britain) was a major coal exporting city, so sending coal there would be pointless.