back to the drawing board

== English == === Alternative forms === back to the old drawing board === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === === Adverb === back to the drawing board (idiomatic) Indicates that one must try a different strategy in order to achieve some goal following the failure of a recent attempt. ==== Translations ==== === See also === square one back to square one === References ===