| 词汇 | carry coals to newcastle |
| 词源 | carry coals to Newcastle. England’s Newcastle-upon-Tyne was the first coal port in the world, the initial charter granted to the town for the digging of coal given by Henry III in 1239. The fact that no one in his right mind would import coal into this coal-mining county gave rise in the 19th century to the ex- pression to carry coals to Newcastle, “to do something superflu- ous, to take something where it is already plentiful.” |
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