另起炉灶

另起爐灶
lìngqǐlúzào
  1. lit. to set up a separate kitchen (idiom); to start from scratch
  2. back to square one
  3. to start of on a new path

CEDICT

  1. (figurative) to establish another separate entity or business
  2. (figurative) to start again
  3. to establish another separate entity or business
  4. to start again

Wiktionary

  1. 比喻事情不能继续进行，另外想其他的方法。
  2. 脱离企业体而独自经营。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 另 lìng
  1. other
  2. another
  3. separate
  4. separately
2 起 qǐ
  1. to rise
  2. to raise
  3. to get up
  4. to set out
  5. to start
  6. to appear
  7. to launch
  8. to initiate (action)
  9. to draft
  10. to establish
  11. to get (from a depot or counter)
  12. verb suffix, to start
  13. starting from (a time, place, price etc)
  14. classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance
  15. classifier for groups: batch, group
3 炉灶 lúzào stove