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back to the drawing board

idiom/bæk tu ðə ˈdrɔɪŋ bɔrd/

to start over after a failure or mistake

Our marketing plan didn’t work, so we’re back to the drawing board.

word origin — Popularized by a 1941 New Yorker cartoon — an engineer comments while his crashed plane burns behind him.