Back-to-the-drawing-board Definition
adverb
(idiomatic) Back to the beginning following an unsuccessful attempt.
Well, that didn't work at all, so it's back to the drawing board, I guess.
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Origin of Back-to-the-drawing-board
Coined as “Well, back to the old drawing board.” as the caption of a Peter Arno cartoon of The New Yorker of March 1, 1941, depicting an engineer walking away from a crashed plane. (cartoon)
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