Each week of 2017 we present an English idiom.
“to go back to the drawing board”: to start again from the beginning; noch einmal von vorn anfangen
Example 1: The package design wasn’t quite what we were looking for, so we’ve asked the designer to go back to the drawing board and send us some new proposals.
Example 2: The new dish didn’t get very good reviews from the restaurant’s patrons, so they went back to the drawing board.