American Idiom: to go back to the drawing board
To go back to the drawing board – means to start over from the beginning or an earlier stage of planning or development.
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to go back to the drawing board
Our proposal got rejected. We have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a better plan.
To go back to the drawing board – means to start over from the beginning or an earlier stage of planning or development.
Here are example sentences :
The design team went back to the drawing board to come up with a more appealing product.
Let’s start all over again. Let’s go back to the drawing board.
Let’s do an exercise to better remember the Idiom.
For each question, replace a word or words in a sentence with the idiom so that the meaning of the sentence is not changed. You have five seconds per question.
Question 1:
We have spent many hours talking about these errors. Let’s just start over from the beginning.
We have spent many hours talking about these errors. Let’s just go back to the drawing board.
Question 2:
The investors strongly rejected our business plan. We need to redo our plan, starting over from the beginning.
The investors strongly rejected our business plan. We need to redo our plan, going back to the drawing board.
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