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build a better mousetrap

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build a better mousetrap
to develop or invent something superior to a device that is widely used. (From the old saying, "If you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.") Harry thought he could build a better mousetrap, but everything he "invented" had already been thought of.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson said that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door.
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