reinvent the wheel

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reinvent the wheel - To design or implement a tool equivalent to an existing one or part of one, with the implication that doing so is silly or a waste of time. This is often a valid criticism. On the other hand, automobiles don't use wooden rollers, and some kinds of wheel have to be reinvented many times before you get them right. On the third hand, people reinventing the wheel do tend to come up with the moral equivalent of a trapezoid with an offset axle.

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No references found			Most people involved with project management don't want to reinvent the wheel because the wheel works well enough; and it would waste precious time, dollars, and effort doing the reinvention. Two sides of reinventing the wheel by Turk, Wayne / Defense AT & L Why do we always have to reinvent the wheel, in this case the Post Bank? Letter: Reinventing the wheel with bank by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Tom Bidley of Coal Action Network said: "Most of the communities opposing these applications are doing so in isolation and each is having to reinvent the wheel. Call to stop opencast mines threat by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)			reinforcing unit Reingold Berzin Reingold Iosifovich Berzin Reinhard Suring Reinhard Süring Reinhardt Reinhardt, Ad Reinhardt, Django Reinhardt, Max Reinhart Dozy Reinhold Gliere Reinhold Glière Reinhold Moritzovich Gliere Reinhold Moritzovich Glière Reinhold Niebuhr Reinhold, Meyer Reinhold, Otto reinitialize Reinmar von Zweter Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen Reinsch test reinserter reinsertion of carrier Reinsurance Treaty Reinsurance Treaty of 1887 reinvent the wheel Reinvestment Reinvestments of Foreign Capital in Developing Countries Reis, Johann Philipp Reischauer, Edwin O. Reischauer, Edwin Oldfather reishi mushroom Reisinger, Hugo Reisner, George Andrew Reisner, Igor Reisner, Igor Mikhailovich Reisner, Larisa Reisner, Larisa Mikhailovna Reissner's Membrane Reissner-Nordstrom solution Reiter's syndrome Reiter, Maks Reiter, Maks Andreevich Reitern, Mikhail Reitern, Mikhail Khristoforovich Reiters Reith Reizen, Mark Reizen, Mark Osipovich Reizov, Boris Reizov, Boris Georgievich			reinterments reinterpret reinterpretation reinterpretations reinterpreted reinterpreting reinterprets reinterred reinterring Reinterrogate reinters Reinthrone Reinthronize reintroduce reintroduce Reintroduced Reintroduced reintroduces reintroduces reintroducing reintroducing reintroduction reintroduction reintroductions reintroductions reintubation REINV reinvent reinvent reinvent reinvent the wheel Reinvent Your Identity reinvented Reinvented Complaint Process reinvented the wheel reinventing Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee Reinventing government Reinventing Government-2 Reinventing the Steel Reinventing the wheel Reinventing the wheel Reinvention Reinvention for Innovative Technologies Reinvention Impact Center Reinvention Laboratory reinventions reinvents reinvents the wheel Reinverting Operating Lens System reinvest reinvest reinvest reinvest with reinvested reinvested reinvested Reinvested Dividends Reinvestigate Reinvestigate Reinvestimento

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