back to the drawing board

副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

副词 adv.
  1. Indicates that one must try a different strategy in order to achieve some goal following the failure of a recent attempt. idiomatic
    — Well, that didn't work at all, so it's back to the drawing board, I guess.

词形变化

back to the old drawing board alternative

词源

Coined as “Well, back to the old drawing board,” as the caption of a cartoon by Peter Arno of The New Yorker on March 1, 1941, depicting an engineer walking away from a crashed plane.
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