back to the planning stage
start again on a new design or plan after the failure of an earlier attempt
back to the beginning because the current attempt was unsuccessful
My experiment was a failure, so I’m back to the drawing board.
Sometimes the best way to proceed after a mistake is to start over and go back to the drawing board.
I think we should go back to the drawing board with our design, and try to make it better this time.
If our proposal is not accepted, we’ll go back to the drawing board.
Well, it’s back to the drawing board for John – his proposal was rejected by the boss again.
The client rejected all our proposals, so we had to ask the consultant to take the project back to the drawing board.
There is no origin for this idiom
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