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English translation: reinventing the wheel

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Spanish term or phrase:	descubrir el agua azucarada
English translation:	reinventing the wheel
Entered by:	Veronica De Pasquale

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13:53 Apr 30, 2007

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Spanish term or phrase: descubrir el agua azucarada

What could be a good translation for "A ellos no les interesa descubrir el agua azucarada si alguien ya lo hizo por ellos"????

Thanks colleagues....

Veronica De Pasquale KudoZ activity Questions: 19 (none open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 5 Dominican Republic
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reinventing the wheel

Explanation:
"descubrir el agua azucarada" is used in Central America as an equivalent of "reinventing the wheel".
The whole sentence could be something like "They're not interested in re-inventing the wheel if somebody else has already done so."

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Mariana Font
Spain
Local time: 10:00

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Thanks Mariana, I've seen it in proz term search but I wasnt sure if that was the exact idiom in English. Thanks for confirming, my best.
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reinventing the wheel

Mariana Font

they won't bother to do it themselves if someone else will do it for them

Carol Gullidge

discovering the [local] delights/the delights of..

liz askew

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discovering the [local] delights/the delights of..

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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:00
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English
PRO pts in category: 40

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they won't bother to do it themselves if someone else will do it for them

Explanation:
whatever it is that needs to be done - often, but not always applied to some chore, or least attractive part of an activity

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 168

4 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

reinventing the wheel

To "reinvent the wheel" is to duplicate a basic method that has long since been accepted and even taken for granted.
Comparing this with the ongoing work on Web service technologies, we are forced to ask the question: are we reinventing the wheel? ...

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel
Reference: http://www2002.org/CDROM/alternate/395/

Mariana Font
Spain
Local time: 10:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks Mariana, I've seen it in proz term search but I wasnt sure if that was the exact idiom in English. Thanks for confirming, my best.

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