When sbd finds a purpose or use for something that
everybody else has overlooked.
The first example of the idiom used this way, occurred when somebody created a puzzle from Rubik's Snake, of which Rubik himself claimed that it isn't a puzzle:
"The snake is not a problem to be solved; it offers infinite
possibilities of
combination. It is a tool to test out ideas of shape in space." See Washington Post, Oct 4, 1981: Rubik's Snake of 'Infinite Possibilities'. Notwithstanding these properties, it turns out to be a puzzle as well.
Look for the book "Soul of the Snake" by CubeMan69, at the Lulu book store, by August 2022.