Square one

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The place where one begins; a lack of progress. idiomatic, no-plural

    "We discovered that our first idea would never work, so we were back to square one."

  2. 2
    the situation in which you begin an endeavor and to which you return if your efforts fail wordnet

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