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Norsk Ta med fisk til Lofoten
Engelsk Carry coals to Newcastle
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Meaning:
To do something pointless and superfluous.
Origin:
Newcastle on Tyne in England was a well known coal mining area and the UK's first coal exporting port. Taking coal there was an archetypally pointless activity.