if you go back to the drawing board, you have to start planning a piece of work again because the previous plan failed.

If the education reform is too expensive to implement, it's back to the drawing board for the committee.

Our proposal might not be accepted, in which case we'll have to go back to the drawing board.

• make short work of something
• make sick
• make sit up and take notice
• make skin crawl
• make someone eat their words
• make someone eat words
• make someone feel small
• make someone quake in boots
• make someone quake in their boots
• make someone's blood boil
• make someone's blood run cold
• make someone's day
• make someone's flesh crawl
• make someone's flesh creep
• make someone's hair stand on end
• make someone sit up and take notice
• make someone's mouth water
• make someone's skin crawl
• make someone's toes curl
• make something of
• make something of yourself
• make something out of nothing
• make something seem like a picnic
• make something stick
• make something up out of whole cloth