词汇 | go back to the drawing board |
释义 | Idiom go back to the drawing board to start something again because the previous attempt failed.Researchers went back to the drawing board to find where they went wrong. Usage notes: sometimes used without go: When we thought we were finished, he sent us back to the drawing board and asked us to completely redo it. Related vocabulary: back to square onego back to the drawing boardTo revise or begin planning something from the beginning, typically after it or a similar thing has failed. We need to go back to the drawing board on this project. I think it had some fundamental flaws from the start. Their latest product was a financial disaster, so they had to go back to the drawing board and come up with a fresh, new idea. go back to the drawing boardFig. to return to the planning stage, so that a failed project can be planned again. These plans have to go back to the drawing board. I thought these problems went back to the drawing board once already. |
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