go back to the drawing board 영어표현 알아보기

무슨 일을 진행하다가 원점으로 돌아가서 다시 시작해야 할 때가 있죠? 이럴 때 쓸 수 있는 영어표현, go back to the drawing board에 대해 알아보도록 하겠습니다.

 

 

go back to the drawing board - 원점으로 돌아가다. 처음부터 다시 시작하다.

• to start planning something again because the first plan failed(Cambridge) 
• If you go back to the drawing board, you start again with a completely new plan or idea, after the one you tried before has failed

'그림을 그리는 화판, 그림판으로 돌아간다'라는 말로 '다시 밑그림부터 다시 그려야 한다', 즉 '처음부터 다시 시작하다'라는 의미가 되겠습니다.

 

Example Sentences

• The current system just isn't working - we need to go back to the drawing board and start afresh.
• His government should go back to the drawing board to rethink their programme in time to return it to Parliament by Septmeber. 
• The computer went back to the drawing board to make a better product.
• Our first attempt did not work and now we need to go back to the drawing board.
• Our project got rejected. We have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a better plan. 
• The design team went bakc to the drawing board to come up with a more appealing product.
• Let's start all over again. Let's go back to the drawing board.
• We weren't able to raise the funds we needed for our project. We will have to go back to the drawing board.