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形容詞

back to square one (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Located back at the start, as after a dead end or failure.

   After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we are back to square one.

   • 1952, Edward Maurice Hugh-Jones, “The American Economy, 1860-1940. by A. J. Youngson Brown”, in The Economic Journal, page 411:

     Withal he has the problem of maintaining the interest of the reader who is always being sent back to square one in a sort of intellectual game of snakes and ladders.

副詞

back to square one (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Back to the start, as after a dead end or failure.

   After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we went back to square one.

参考

• back to the drawing board

参照

Further reading

• back to square one (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia