build a better mousetrap
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English
Etymology
A shortening of build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Derived from:
- If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Verb
build a better mousetrap (third-person singular simple present builds a better mousetrap, present participle building a better mousetrap, simple past and past participle built a better mousetrap)
- (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.