Reinvent the wheel

重新发明轮子

Learning English Conversations

2017-02-14

2 分钟
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Wasting time doing something that's been done before? There's a phrase to explain this
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  • The English we speak from bbclearningenglish.com hello, and welcome to the English We Speak.

  • I'm Fei Fei, and Hi there.

  • I'm.

  • I'm Neil.

  • Neil, could we have your attention, please?

  • Sorry, Feife.

  • I'm still trying to finish the script for this program.

  • What?

  • You're still writing the script for this program?

  • So what's going to happen today, then?

  • Well, I thought that you could pretend to arrive late.

  • I've lost my coffee.

  • I just need to think of an authentic, real English phrase to use now.

  • Oh, come on, Neil.

  • There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

  • Fei Fei, you're amazing.

  • To reinvent the wheel.

  • That's a great English phrase.