square one

成語所屬單字square

square one — 慣用語

1. the starting point of a task or process, especially after a failure that forces

1.慣用語
釋義

the starting point of a task or process, especially after a failure that forces you to begin again

例句

The recipe did not work the first time, so Romi started from square one again.

The software completely failed, and we had to go back to square one.