fail to obtain, learn or find sth one is searching for
However, even if you draw a blank, it is always worth checking to see whether or not you can influence the external event that starts the sequence. BNCI
Not only did I draw a blank about the pictures, but political events were moving so fast that the book I had begun to write had ceased, after the completion of the amount of text Faber's required, to be the one that needed to he written. BNCI