- reinvent the wheel
- Reinvent the wheelIf someone reinvents the wheel, they waste their time doing something that has already been done by other people, when they could be doing something more worthwhile.
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reinvent the wheel
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reinvent the wheel — To return, usu by a circuitous and complex process, to a simple device or method • • • Main Entry: ↑reinvent * * * reinvent the wheel phrase to waste time and effort trying to do something that someone else has already done well Thesaurus: to… … Useful english dictionary
reinvent the wheel — ► to waste time and money in developing something that already exists: »I m afraid we ve wasted six years reinventing the wheel. Main Entry: ↑reinvent … Financial and business terms
reinvent the wheel — tv. to make unnecessary or redundant preparations. □ You don’t need to reinvent the wheel. Read up on what others have done. □ I don’t have time to reinvent the wheel … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
reinvent the wheel — verb To redo work unnecessarily when it has already been done satisfactorily; to rethink an already working system, technique, etc. in a needless attempt to improve it. Just use the database as it is and dont try to reinvent the wheel … Wiktionary
reinvent the wheel — to discover how to do something that has already been discovered. We ve had a lot of experience with disasters, and don t have to reinvent the wheel every time something happens … New idioms dictionary
reinvent the wheel — If someone reinvents the wheel, they waste their time doing something that has already been done by other people, when they could be doing something more worthwhile. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Reinvent the wheel — If someone reinvents the wheel, they waste their time doing something that has already been done by other people, when they could be doing something more worthwhile … Dictionary of English idioms
reinvent the wheel — waste time or effort in creating something that already exists. → reinvent … English new terms dictionary
reinvent the wheel — to waste time and effort trying to do something that someone else has already done well … English dictionary
Reinventing the wheel — (aka. Not built here ) is a phrase that means a generally accepted technique or solution is ignored in favor of a locally invented solution. To reinvent the wheel is to duplicate a basic method that has long since been accepted and even taken for … Wikipedia
