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go/be back to square one
idiom informal
to be forced to think of a new course of action because your first course of action failed: 被迫从头做起；回到起点
The deal with the house fell through so I'm afraid we're back to square one.这栋房子的交易失败了，恐怕我们得从头再来。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Beginnings and starts
a baptism of/by fireidiom
advent
baptism
beginning
birth
commencement
initiation
introduction
jumping-off point
kick off
onset
opening
outbreak
square
starter
starting time
the thin end of the wedgeidiom
thin
trigger
zero hour
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