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noun
- a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- back to the drawing board, back to the original or an earlier stage of planning or development: Our plan didn’t work out, so it’s back to the drawing board.
- on the drawing board, in the planning or design stage: The shopping center is still on the drawing board.
noun
- a smooth flat rectangular board on which paper, canvas, etc, is placed for making drawings
- back to the drawing board return to an earlier stage in an enterprise because a planned undertaking has failed
A saying indicating that one’s effort has failed, and one must start all over again: “The new package we designed hasn’t increased our sales as we’d hoped, so it’s back to the drawing board.”
Also, back to square one. Back to the beginning because the current attempt was unsuccessful, as in When the town refused to fund our music program, we had to go back to the drawing board, or I’ve assembled this wrong side up, so it’s back to square one. The first term originated during World War II, most likely from the caption of a cartoon by Peter Arno in The New Yorker magazine. It pictured a man who held a set of blueprints and was watching an airplane explode. The variant is thought to come from a board game or street game where an unlucky throw of dice or a marker sends the player back to the beginning of the course. It was popularized by British sports-casters in the 1930s, when the printed radio program included a grid with numbered squares to help listeners follow the description of a soccer game.
see back to the drawing board.
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