单词 | back to the drawing board |
释义 | > as lemmasback to the drawing board P2. back to the drawing board: used to indicate that an idea, plan, etc., has proved unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised; ‘back to square one’. ΚΠ 1941 New Yorker 1 Mar. 17 (caption) Well, back to the old drawing board. 1969 Times 12 June 24/2 If prices do not respond by the end of the year, then, as Mr. Stein remarked recently, we shall really have to take economics right back to the drawing board and rethink all our basic assumptions from the bottom up. 2004 Sunday Mail (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 8 Aug. 68 It's back to the drawing board for Dance Hero following his shock defeat in yesterday's San Domenico Stakes. < as lemmas |
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