square one

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Noun

square one (plural not attested)

1. (idiomatic) The place where one begins; a lack of progress.

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

Related terms

• back to square one

Translations

the place where one begins

• Finnish: lähtöruutu
• French: case départ (fr) f
• Hungarian: kiindulópont (hu), startvonal (hu), kályha (hu), ahol a part szakad
• Portuguese: estaca zero (pt) f
• Spanish: casilla de salida f