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drawing board

noun

a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.

drawing board

a smooth flat rectangular board on which paper, canvas, etc, is placed for making drawings
back to the drawing board
return to an earlier stage in an enterprise because a planned undertaking has failed

First recorded in 1715–25

back to the drawing board, back to the original or an earlier stage of planning or development:
Our plan didn't work out, so it's back to the drawing board.
on the drawing board, in the planning or design stage:
The shopping center is still on the drawing board.

“Back to the drawing board and what a circus we will have to watch,” Stephens said.

But in seven months, the team took the Spire from the drawing board to a real-world test in Albany, New York.

Designer royal baby items are on the (literal) drawing board, thanks to Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Vera Wang, and more.

“I really have to go back to the drawing board,” she admitted.

Whatever the case, the drawing board may not be a bad place for Serena to visit.

He was there, a few feet away; and while her soul was tossing on seas of woe he had been quietly sitting at his drawing-board.

The impatient sweeping aside of the drawing-board seemed to reveal a new mood.

As a youngster I had planned to study architecture, as I had developed some talent at the drawing board.

Your dad was a wonderful draftsman, Peg, commented Cleo, with her newly trained eye tracing the intricacies of the drawing board.

When she had taken off her hat and laid it upon his drawing-board, he held her against him and caressed her hair.

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