reinventing the wheel

Summary

reinventing the wheel is an idiom^[1]. It draws 89 Wikipedia views per month (idiom category, ranking #51 of 97).^[2]

Key Facts

• reinventing the wheel's instance of is recorded as idiom^[3].
• reinventing the wheel's subclass of is recorded as practice^[4].
• reinventing the wheel's subclass of is recorded as waste of resources^[5].
• reinventing the wheel's subclass of is recorded as rediscovery^[6].
• reinventing the wheel's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Madehub-Réinventer la roue.wav^[7].
• reinventing the wheel's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04qjcf^[8].
• reinventing the wheel's has cause is recorded as not invented here^[9].
• reinventing the wheel's has cause is recorded as ignorance^[10].
• reinventing the wheel's Quora topic ID is recorded as Reinventing-The-Wheel^[11].
• reinventing the wheel's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2780093382^[12].

Why It Matters

reinventing the wheel draws 89 Wikipedia views per month (idiom category, ranking #51 of 97).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[13] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[14]