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It's one thing to carry coals to Newcastle, but a whole coal mine?

"It'd be carrying coals to Newcastle at this point, really it would."

Which now would have been carrying coals to Newcastle.

It's like carrying coals to Newcastle, he thought, looking around at the garden, now falling into the shadows of evening.

Twenty gees is a lot - enough to cause brain damage if sustained for any time, but that would be carrying coals to Newcastle.

"Sending prostitutes to Mexico," he commented heavily, "is like carrying coals to Newcastle."

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Those who made its politics were the people who poured gasoline on fires, rubbed salt into wounds, and carried coals to Newcastle.

"Carrying coals to Newcastle?"

Carrying coals to Newcastle, they have brought selections of their very good wares for us to sample, and they are equally generous with their knowledge.

It may seem like carrying coals to Newcastle, but American Standard, a $4-billion-a-year plumbing fixtures company, is determined to bring porcelain to China.

For most Italians, having a Pizza Hut move in would probably seem like carrying coals to Newcastle or owls to Athens, all rolled into one.

Long before it became a trade issue, Mr. Yanase (pronounced ya-na-seh) was carrying coals to Newcastle.

Inviting Greeks To See Antiquities Is this the art-world equivalent of carrying coals to Newcastle?

In an American equivalent to "carrying coals to Newcastle," Mr. Bernabe has shipped champagne to France.

Maybe the designer thought bringing his signature work to London was a bit like carrying coals to Newcastle, since this is the home of Savile Row.

"Taking owls to Athens" was a contemporary Greek saying, roughly the equivalent of the modern "selling snow to eskimos" or "carrying coals to Newcastle".

The expression "carrying coals to Newcastle" is losing some of its resonance, as the coal-mining heritage of the English town of Newcastle passes from common memory.

It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market, an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle.

The Homeric commentator Eustathius of Thessalonica mentions a saying, "carry boxwood to Cytorus," with the meaning of "carry coals to Newcastle".

IN what might seem like carrying coals to Newcastle, the Philips Consumer Electronics Company this month will begin exporting color television sets from its Greeneville, Tenn., factory to Japan.

Organizers have also invited Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren - for whom a men's-wear show in England is akin to carrying coals to Newcastle.

For those of us who have been paying attention, providing more evidence that this administration essentially considers itself unfettered by the checks and balances of the legislative and judicial branches is like carrying coals to Newcastle.

It's tempting to reach for a wisecrack about carrying coals to Newcastle; but audiences are likely to find that this heartfelt musical comedy feels right at home in the hometown of Rodgers and Hart."

The phrase "To carry Coals to Newcastle" is first documented in North America in 1679 in William Fitzhugh's letters "But relating farther to you would be carrying Coals to new Castle."

The phrase taking coals to Newcastle was first recorded in 1538.

"We have loads of them - it's like taking coals to Newcastle."

Taking coals to Newcastle, the sketch comedy pokes fun at local targets.

"Taking coals to Newcastle, if you ask me.

Adding music to Virginia Woolf's novel "To the Lighthouse" would seem to be a classic case of taking coals to Newcastle.

THE English expression "taking coals to Newcastle" pretty much sums up Noel Coward's American career.

The phrase "taking coals to Newcastle" was first recorded in 1538; it proverbially denotes bringing a particular commodity to a place that has more than enough of it already.

As the old Russian saying goes, you don't take a samovar to Tula - just as you don't take coals to Newcastle.

The economy was for several decades exceptionally dependent on ship building and on coal mining in Durham and Northumberland, which gave rise to the phrase "taking coals to Newcastle".

"Taking a museum of American art to a town where there's nothing but American art is like taking coals to Newcastle," said Ronald Gidwitz, one of the plaintiffs.

"There's an expression in England about taking coals to Newcastle," said Wayne Eagling, artistic director of the Dutch National Ballet, which will stage its fifth piece by Graham next month.

Donna Karan last season showed her collection in Florence, Italy, and refusing to take coals to Newcastle, drove her New York-powered show like a race car speeding down a deserted Fifth Avenue.