Übersetzung für "Eulen nach athen" in Englisch

It's kind of like bringing brass to gold.

That's like carrying coals to Newcastle.

Adding more attributes to the previous reviews would mean carrying owls to Athens.

If I were to take furniture with me, I would carry owls to Athens.

To describe religious traditions and celebrations would probably \"owls to Athens\" to wear.

I would be preaching here to the converted if I were to repeat what was also rightly stressed in the debate on the Thomas report concerning the multiple role played by European forests in the environmental, health and leisure fields but also in social and economic areas.

"bears to the bear garden", for me to try to explain to you, the farmers and agricultural policy-makers here in Germany, how important monetary stability is for our common agricultural policy, and just how distorting the effects of economic divergence and monetary turbulence on European agricultural policy and markets have been in the past.

Public relations activities are often limited to ‘preaching to the converted’ and are strongly characterised by ad-hoc initiatives.

The damage caused to forests largely results from: the atmospheric pollution caused by the major industrial complexes; the change in weather conditions brought about by this disruption to natural balances which has devastating consequences, triggering processes of degradation, such as defoliation and foliage decoloration; and fires - both fires that result from natural causes and those which are the result of human stupidity.

Saying something about the Sebumeter or Corneometer is almost like carrying coals to Newcastle.

The saying "Carry owls to Athens" thus stands for a superfluous or unnecessary activity.

To say again, that Dresden´s town centre is beautiful would mean to carry owls to Athens.

Perhaps many readers of this journal feel that this emphatic invocation of changes in the distribution of labor is a matter of carrying coals to Newcastle. However, we would remind them that the rhetoric of many social scientists is still marked by the tendency to assure themselves of their own worth and their own accomplishments by stressing a significant distance to an "unenlightened" professional practice, which can only be "enlightened" from the outside. A telling example is the history of a tense relationship between sociology and social work.

Taking beer to Munich would be like carrying coals to Newcastle, owls to Athens or rolling cheese to Switzerland.

Well-known phrase "Carry owls to Athens" goes back to the comedy poet Aristophanes, who claimed the inhabitants of Athens are so rich in his comedy "The Birds",, because lot of "owls", meaning coins, are always next to them in their purses.

Hobby painters do not need any more to carry owls to Athens, with these four colorful and humorous specimens, they bring the symbolized wisdom to their home.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer has developed the ironic tale "I carry an owl to Athens", which is actually about a little owl.