Complete Definition of "reinvent the wheel"

English

Verb

to reinvent the wheel (reinvents the wheel, reinventing the wheel, reinvented the wheel)

  1. idiom To redo work unnecessarily when it has already been done satisfactory|satisfactorily; to rethink an already working system, technique, etc. in a pointless attempt to improve it.

#:Just use the database as it is and don't try to reinvent the wheel.

Translations
Dutch: het wiel opnieuw uitvinden
German: das Rad neu erfinden
Japanese: �輪���� (sharin no saihatsumei)
Russian: изоб�е�а�� вело�ипед
Spanish: descubrir el agua tibia

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