back to the drawing board

Meaning

Adverb

Back to the beginning following an unsuccessful attempt.

Origin

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.

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