Hyphenation
back to the draw·ing boardTurkish pronunciation
bäk tı dhi drôîng bôrdPronunciation
/ˈbak tə ᴛʜē ˈdrôəɴɢ ˈbôrd/ /ˈbæk tə ðiː ˈdrɔːɪŋ ˈbɔːrd/
Etymology
() 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. ()