Re: USAGE: Inventing gunpowder & idioms
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 1, 1999, 0:21 |
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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.
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