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What does back to the drawing board mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word back to the drawing board? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. (idiomatic) Back to the beginning following an unsuccessful attempt.
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It is back to the drawing board as the private finance initiative scheme is scrapped.
Time and again, proposals are sent back to the drawing board, put back out to consultation, referred up then down then up again.
York Council expects to send developers back to the drawing board over their proposals for the city's Barbican Centre.
The regulations must be sent back to the drawing board and revised to conform to the real world.
They instead sent the whole proposal back to the drawing board for further consideration.
It's back to the drawing board for a road project following a hostile reception at a public meeting.

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