back to square one

back to square one
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.

2. adverb
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.


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