coals to Newcastle

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coals to Newcastle - Something brought or sent to a place where it is already plentiful; it is a reference to the English town of Newcastle upon Tyne, historically a major coal exporter.

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coal England Inappropriateness Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-upon-Tyne sent			However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context And 'twould be like carrying coals to Newcastle, to drive those harts to Sherwood Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context			Coalery coalesce coalesced coalescence coalescency Coalescent coalescing Coalesque coalface coalfield coalfish Coalgoose coalhole coalification coaling station Coalite coalition coalition action coalition coordination cell Coalitioner Coalitionist coalman Coalmouse Coalpit Coalport coals to Newcastle Coalsack Coaly coaming Coamings Coannex coapt coaptation Coarct coarctate Coarctate pupa coarctation coarse coarse fish coarse mine coarse-furred coarse-grained coarse-haired coarse-textured coarsely coarsen coarsened coarseness Coarticulation coassembly coast			coalitionist coalitionist coalitionist coalitionist coalitionists coalitionists coalitionists coalitionists Coalitions Coalitions Coalitions Coalitions Coalization Coalization CoALL coalman coalmen coalmice Coalmine Coalmine Coalmining Coalmining Coalmouse Coalmouse coalpit Coalport coals coals coals coals coals to Newcastle Coalsack Coalsack Coalsack Nebula Coalsack Nebula COALT Coaltar of the Deepers Coaltown of Balgonie Coaltown of Balgonie Coalville Coalville, Leicester Coalville, Leicestershire Coalworker's pneumoconiosis Coalworker's pneumoconiosis Coalworker's pneumoconiosis Coaly Coaly COAM COAMC COAME COAMFTE coaming coaming Coamings Coamings Coamo Coamo, Puerto Rico Coamoxin Coamoxin COAMPS COAN

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