📚 Back to the drawing board, phrase. ❓ Definition: Used to indicate that an idea, scheme, or proposal has been unsuccessful and that a new one must be devised. ❗️ Examples: 1. The government must go back to the drawing board and review the whole issue of youth training. 2. The developers must now go back to the drawing board in relation to this second phase of their project. 3. The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world. 4. York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre. 5. They have also decided to go back to the drawing board on the idea for bus priority in Shipton Road between Loweswater Road and Rawcliffe Lane. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic