go back to the drawing board
to re-start a project or activity
TRANSLATION
go back to the drawing board = noch einmal von vorne anfangen --- GOOGLE INDEX go back to the drawing board: approximately 2,200,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
A Guernsey politician wants to throw out the island's planned energy-from-waste plant and GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD.
(BBC News)
---
"We think that European leaders will eventually need to GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. Financial assistance needs to be made more generous, with loans extended at much lower rates than current market rates."
(Financial Times)
(BBC News)
---
"We think that European leaders will eventually need to GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. Financial assistance needs to be made more generous, with loans extended at much lower rates than current market rates."
(Financial Times)
Did you
know?
go back to the drawing board*
idiom
- to start planning a piece of work again because the first plan failed
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
* a drawing board is a large flat table, often with a top that can be moved into different positions, which is used as a desk for drawing or designing something
---
Project planning is an invaluable skill in every profession these days, whether it's the self-employed brick layer or chief financial officer of a Fortune 500 company.
Regardless of how thoroughly we plan however, we can always "plan" on going back to the drawing board from time to time. To paraphrase the poet Robert Burns, "the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray."
With this in mind, here are a few project management proverbs:
- If you don't plan, it doesn't work. If you do plan, it doesn't work either. Why plan?
- The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.
- There are no good project managers - only lucky ones.
- If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
- There's never enough time to do it right the first time, but there's always enough time to go back to the drawing board.
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After two days of trying to install our wireless network it still doesn't work. I need to go back to the drawing board."
idiom
- to start planning a piece of work again because the first plan failed
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
* a drawing board is a large flat table, often with a top that can be moved into different positions, which is used as a desk for drawing or designing something
---
Project planning is an invaluable skill in every profession these days, whether it's the self-employed brick layer or chief financial officer of a Fortune 500 company.
Regardless of how thoroughly we plan however, we can always "plan" on going back to the drawing board from time to time. To paraphrase the poet Robert Burns, "the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray."
With this in mind, here are a few project management proverbs:
- If you don't plan, it doesn't work. If you do plan, it doesn't work either. Why plan?
- The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.
- There are no good project managers - only lucky ones.
- If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.
- There's never enough time to do it right the first time, but there's always enough time to go back to the drawing board.
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After two days of trying to install our wireless network it still doesn't work. I need to go back to the drawing board."
