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back to the drawing board |
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back to the drawing board Fig. time to start from the start; it is time to plan something over again. (Plans or schematics are drawn on a drawing board. Note the variations shown in the examples.) It didn't work. Back to the drawing board. I flunked English this semester. Well, back to the old drawing board. back to the drawing board if you go back to the drawing board, you have to start planning a piece of work again because the previous plan failed If the education reform is too expensive to implement, it's back to the drawing board for the committee. Our proposal might not be accepted, in which case we'll have to go back to the drawing board. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``We had to keep going back to the drawing board to make the scissors more flexible,'' says Bourne. PF Washington consultant Jim Wiesemeyer reports, "It's back to the drawing board for USDA regarding opening the border to Canadian cattle over 30 months of age, and products from those animals. So while I believe these types of programs are needed in districts, and agree with Gary Stager that if properly presented it would be easy to gain parental support, any district that doesn't articulate its plans should head back to the drawing board. |
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