go back to the drawing board

go back to the drawing board

To revise or begin planning something from the beginning, typically after it or a similar thing has failed. We need to go back to the drawing board on this project. I think it had some fundamental flaws from the start. Their latest product was a financial disaster, so they had to go back to the drawing board and come up with a fresh, new idea.See also: back, board, drawing, go

go back to the drawing board

Fig. to return to the planning stage, so that a failed project can be planned again. These plans have to go back to the drawing board. I thought these problems went back to the drawing board once already.See also: back, board, drawing, go