Meanings (ES + gloss)
llevar hierro a Vizcaya • llevar leña al monte
To do something that is unneeded or redundant.
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 […]
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…
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