Re: USAGE: Inventing gunpowder & idioms

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Gustavo Eulalio wrote:
> >         - Inventar a roda. (To invent the wheel)
> >           To work hard to make something that had already been done and
> >           could have been used.
>
> Interesting.  We have a similar idiom, "re-invent the wheel", in
> English.
Also in Dutch, as well as "a storm in a glass of water" that means
a trivial upset that's made far too much of.

   Irina