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/skwɛr wən/ Listen

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

... and put it under the seat, like he did his hat—that was the only thing he did that any woman wouldn't have done—and the crown of his cap was bent some. I thought die I should. The pew was one of them up aside the pulpit, a square one, you know, right at the end of the right-hand aisle, so I could see the length of it and out of the door, and there stood that poor boy we'd left to keep the cap'n company, looking as pale as ashes. We found he'd tried every ...

— Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... can be saved if the material be ordered from the mill ready cut to length, squared and sanded. The corner posts should be made first. The most convenient and accurate method of laying out the mortises is to square one end of each post and lay them on the bench flat, with the squared ends even with each other; then clamp them securely and lay out the mortises on one side across all four pieces at once; then loosen ...

— Mission Furniture - How to Make It, Part 3 • H. H. Windsor

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