go back to the drawing board

Example Sentences

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I’d go back to the drawing board on this one and plot out a rational plan for Roth conversions over several years, if that’s what you decide makes the most sense for you.

From MarketWatch • May 26, 2026

Anna de Graaff says, "The extreme properties of The Cliff forced us to go back to the drawing board, and come up with entirely new models."

From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025

“There needs to be a standard and we need to execute and if we don’t execute, we go back to the drawing board, we work on those things, we get better and we execute.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025

"We want the LDP-Komeito coalition to go back to the drawing board for now and bring an end to our relationship," Komeito party chief Tetsuo Saito told reporters after talks with the LDP.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

“I suppose we could go back to the drawing board and reallocate our square footage.”

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck