back to the drawing board
Meaning: You can say "back to the drawing board" when a plan or a design has failed, and you decide to begin all over again.
For example:
- Their plans to open a hotel in Fiji fell through, so it was back to the drawing board.
- Our new drug worked on rats, but when it was tried on people it failed, so we had to go back to the drawing board and start again.
Quick Quiz:
We started an online business, but after a while it was back to the drawing board because
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