Idiom Meaning - Reinventing the Wheel
CMAT 2019 · Language Comprehension · Easy · Vocabulary
In the following sentence, what does the underlined phrase mean?
A good teacher is one who sees to it that a student does not waste time in reinventing the wheel?
- A.
waste time on unnecessary details
- B.
repeating oneself
- C.
waste time in imaginary things
- D.
doing something that has already been done
Answer
D
Explanation
The phrase "reinventing the wheel" means engaging time in doing/finding something that has already been created or done.
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