另起爐灶

另起炉灶
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. 比喻事情不能繼續進行，另外想其他的方法。
  2. 脫離企業體而獨自經營。

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 爐灶 lúzào stove