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September 4

Fool's errand

(Posting by banned user removed. – Fut.Perf. ☼ 17:07, 4 September 2020 (UTC))[reply]

Are you looking for specifically a phrase in the form of "carrying X to Y" or are you looking for general phrases meaning "pointless exercises/fool's errands"? --Jayron 32 16:29, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

If it's the former, perhaps "selling ice to Eskimos" is the one you are thinking of? --Jayron 32 16:30, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Difficult two answer an invisible query, but we have an article Coals to Newcastle. --Cookatoo.ergo.ZooM (talk) 18:04, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And of course owls to Athens, which simply sounds much nicer. Temerarius (talk) 02:34, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And was mentioned in the original post before it was removed. --Khajidha (talk) 17:04, 5 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]