>> "takes coals to Newcastle" - once full of collieries.
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>When we visited Newcastle a few years ago, I was surprised that neither Marshal nor my boys was familiar with "carrying coals to Newcastle." I know I grew up hearing or reading it.
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>Tamar
I wasn't sure that it would be used in the USA as you have so many towns similarly named to those in Europe that I thought Americans might not catch the allusion. Like "What do they mean, Newcastle? It's village in Vermont!" (not an actual example).
For years I thought Jimmy Osmond's "Long haired lover from Liverpool" was about MY home town. :-)
Terry
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
