reinvent the wheel

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reinvent the wheel

Verb

reinvent the wheel

(idiomatic) To do work unnecessarily when it has already been done satisfactorily by others; to attempt to devise a solution to a problem when a solution already exists.
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Translations

to do work unnecessarily

Chinese:
Mandarin: 做無用功／做无用功, 做无用功 (zuò wúyònggōng)
Czech: objevit Ameriku
Dutch: het wiel opnieuw uitvinden
Finnish: keksiä pyörä uudelleen
French: réinventer la roue (fr)
German: das Rad neu erfinden
Japanese: 車輪の再発明 (しゃりんのさいはつめい, sharin-no saihatsumei)
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Lithuanian: išradinėti dviratį
Polish: wynajdywać koło na nowo impf
Portuguese: reinventar a roda
Russian: изобрета́ть велосипе́д (ru) (izobretátʹ velosipéd)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: о̀ткрити то̏плӯ во̀ду pf, откри́вати то̏плӯ во̀ду impf, ѝзмислити то̏плӯ во̀ду pf, изми́шљати то̏плӯ во̀ду impf

Roman: òtkriti tȍplū vòdu pf, otkrívati tȍplū vòdu impf, ìzmisliti tȍplū vòdu pf, izmíšljati tȍplū vòdu impf
Spanish: descubrir el agua tibia

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