英语词汇“back to/at square one”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

back to/at square one

back where one started without any progress achieved

[probably connected with the squares on a game board such as snakes and ladders, in which landing on a penalty square could send the player back to the start, or ‘square one’. The phrase is sometimes attributed to the practice in early radio commentaries of notionally dividing a football pitch into eight squares as an aid to listeners’ mental reference. But ‘square one’ did not correspond in any consistent way to the beginning of the game or to any notion of failure or lack of progress in it.]

单词	back to/at square one
释义	back to/at square one back where one started without any progress achieved [probably connected with the squares on a game board such as snakes and ladders, in which landing on a penalty square could send the player back to the start, or ‘square one’. The phrase is sometimes attributed to the practice in early radio commentaries of notionally dividing a football pitch into eight squares as an aid to listeners’ mental reference. But ‘square one’ did not correspond in any consistent way to the beginning of the game or to any notion of failure or lack of progress in it.] Main Entry: square
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