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reinvent the wheel

UK/ˌɹiːɪnˌvɛnt ðə ˈ(h)wiːl/US/ˌɹiːɪnˌvɛnt ðə ˈ(h)wiːl/
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To reinvent the wheel is to waste effort making again what already exists. Do not reinvent the wheel.

It is the standard objection to any team building its own version of a solved problem. Sometimes you should reinvent the wheel, because the existing one does not fit your cart.

Pearson Scott Foresman · Public domain

Definitions of reinvent the wheel

  1. 1phrasereinvent the wheelTo waste effort making again what already exists.C1

    “They chose to reinvent the wheel and lost eight months.”

reinvent the wheel is a phrase.

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