drawing board

The tight budget for the projects, he said, sometimes sent them back to the drawing board, allowed them to think out of the box and led to new innovations.

Environmentalists hope to see limits put on off-road recreation while the agency goes back to the drawing board.

“I urge you to go back to the drawing board.”

He draws the fundamentals of the car layout on his fabled drawing board, analyses reports, sits in some meetings, and contributes and asks questions and guides where he feels it is needed.

Miller, on the other hand, is going back to the drawing board.