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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.
See also: back, board, drawing
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.
See also: back, board, drawing
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