back to the drawing board

短语

发音

AU

别名

back to the old drawing board

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    Indicates that one must try a different strategy in order to achieve some goal following the failure of a recent attempt.

    习语

    Well, that didn't work at all, so it's back to the drawing board, I guess.

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.

来源：wiktionary