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单词 reinvent the wheel
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reinvent the wheel

to waste time trying to create something that someone else has already created

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Wasting

  • boondoggle
  • dissipate
  • down the drain idiom
  • fritter
  • fritter sth away
  • lose
  • misspend
  • piss sth away
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • reinvent
  • squander
  • throw
  • toss
  • wastage
  • waste
  • waste not, want not idiom
  • wasted
  • wasteful
  • waster

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reinvent the wheel

to waste time learning how to do something when it is already known how to do it:

We don't need to reinvent the wheel, we just need to hire someone who already knows how to make the system work.
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