Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
KieliKäännökset
hollantiuilen naar Athene dragen, water naar de zee dragen
italiaportare nottole ad Atene
portugalilevar água ao mar
ranskaporter de l'eau à la rivière, montrer le soleil avec un flambeau
saksaEulen nach Athen tragen
tanskaman skal ikke give bagerbørn hvedebrød
tšekkinosit dříví do lesa
venäjäездить в Тулу со своим самоваром (jezdit v Tulu so svoim samovarom)

Määritelmät

Verbi

  1. (idiomatic) To do something that is unneeded or redundant.

Esimerkit

  • 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.
  • He's the fellow who likes to let off stink bombs in night clubs, which rather falls under the head of carrying coals to Newcastle [...]

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