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build_a_better_mousetrap
build a better mousetrap
English
Verb
- (idiomatic) To invent the next great thing; to have a better idea.
- Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap.