[Idiom] to force an open door

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Is there such an idiom in English? It exists in Polish and I think in German too. I don't see any matches in the British National Corpus, but a Polish dictionary says it's how we should translate the Polish idiom. Did they simply carelessly translate the idiom literally or is there something to it?
 

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But I think "to force a door open" means simply "to open a locked door by force", doesn't it?
The Polish idiom means "to try to solve an already solved or non-existent problem". I'm sorry I didn't provide the meaning in the question.
 

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