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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

... The shot was a square one, and when the smoke from the gun cleared away it was found that the reptile's head was completely severed from the body, which latter continued to twist about until it fell into the water of the bog hole. Jerry kicked the head in after ...

— The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview • Ralph Bonehill

... ten young men for a conference. It was decided to mark off ten squares on the lawn in front of the schoolhouse. On each square a squad of thirty children should stand, the children of each squad graded so as to be nearly of a size, girls and boys in alternate squares. Before each square one of the ten young men should stand with five hundred silver coins in a dish. At a signal from Kitsap, who should stand on the school steps, the ten young men should throw the dimes in the air and the scramble ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. • Various

... were in London. Amabel preferred the country; but she bore the town as she bore with many other things that were not quite to her taste, including painfully short petticoats, and Mademoiselle, the French governess. She was in the garden of the square one ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... his chair and once more grew silent, watching the thronged street and the twinkling lights. In the little square one of the musicians with a very clear sweet voice was singing a plaintive song, and above the hum of the crowd, the melody, haunting in its wistfulness, floated to Chayne's ears, and ...

— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason

... we sat in was a square one, with a table in the middle of it for our books. My brother David generally used it for laying his head upon, that he might go to sleep comfortably. My brother Tom put his feet on the cross-bar of it, leaned back in his corner—for you see we had a corner apiece—put his hands ...

— Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood • George MacDonald

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