go back to the drawing board

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go back to the drawing board (third-person singular simple present goes back to the drawing board, present participle going back to the drawing board, simple past went back to the drawing board, past participle gone back to the drawing board)

1. (idiomatic) To start again; to scrap a previous idea or plan and try again from the beginning.

   After the original plan failed miserably, they decided to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new.