Choose the meaning of the idiom "back to the drawing board".

to learn to drawCorrect answerYour answerto start planning again after a failureCorrect answerYour answerto go back to schoolCorrect answerYour answerto give up the planCorrect answerYour answer

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Going back to the drawing board means starting a plan again because the first one failed.

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Give up the plan is close to the opposite: the idea is to try again.

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Choose the meaning of the idiom "back to the drawing board".

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