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- adverb idiomatic Back to the
beginning following anunsuccessful attempt .
Etymologies
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Coined as “Well, back to the old drawing board.” as the caption of a Peter Arno cartoon of The New Yorker of March 1, 1941, depicting an engineer walking away from a crashed plane. (cartoon)
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mialuthien commented on the word back to the drawing board
= back to the beginning
July 25, 2008