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Square one

noun

The situation in which you begin an endeavor and to which you return if your efforts fail. "She has tried to diet but always ends up back at square one"

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"Square one" Quotes from Famous Books

... ever filled so large a place in the imagination of the world. The one-mullioned window in the eastern gable might have been seen by Tam O'Shanter blazing with devilish light as he approached it along the road from Ayr, and there is a small square one on the side next the road; there is also an odd kind of belfry, almost the smallest ever made, with a little bell in it,—and this is all. But no grand and storied cathedral pile in all Europe is better ...

— Home Life of Great Authors • Hattie Tyng Griswold

... election," Sam went on, "is almost here. I have looked into this thing. We must beat this bond issue and then put through a square one. There is a train out of Chicago at seven o'clock, a fast train. You get fifty speakers out here. I will pay for a special train if necessary and I will hire a band and help stir things up. I can give you ...

— Windy McPherson's Son • Sherwood Anderson

Words linked to "Square one" : state of affairs, situation