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reinvent the wheel

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reinvent the wheel

to waste time trying to develop products or systems that you think are original when in fact they have already been done before. Why reinvent the wheel when there are drugs already on the market that are effective?

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reinvent the wheel

to discover how to do something that has already been discovered. We've had a lot of experience with disasters, and don't have to reinvent the wheel every time something happens.

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