2006-12-25 21:16:56 · 9 answers · asked by palav m 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
back to the beginning..for example when someth goes wrong you can say that..means all the stuff you have done till then is worthless so starting again
2006-12-25 21:20:26 · answer #1 · answered by bellavit4 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Back to square one" is a phrase that means to go back to the beginning.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the phrase most likely originated from children's games such as hopscotch and snakes and ladders. The earliest recorded use of it in print is from a 1952 edition of the Economic Journal.
An alternative theory is that the phrase originated from early radio commentaries of football matches by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The first live radio commentary featured a Division One match between Arsenal and Sheffield United, broadcast on January 22, 1927. A grid of a football pitch divided into eight numbered squares had been printed in the previous week's Radio Times so the commentator could describe the ball's location. Square one meant the rear left quadrant of the defender's side of the field.
The theory postulates that whenever a game was restarted from a goal kick, it would be in square one, hence the phrase. However as is clear from the diagram, there are four possible squares from which a goal kick could be taken. Furthermore, the squares system was dropped by the BBC soon after its inception, and the OED notes that over 20 years passed between its abandonment and the first recorded use of the phrase in print.
2006-12-26 08:35:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that all the hardwork that had been put in doing something has gone to a waste and now you're back at the same stage with the same situation as you were when you started with the thing.
2006-12-26 05:33:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
“They will surprise us in the final hour. We will reject it and the people will be angry, the street will be angry and as a result we will be back to square one.”
“I give Lisle a lot of credit. They run the system and they execute it. I quit counting their offensive rebounds at 19. That was one of the few things I had written on the board: 'execute our system, stop the ball, and box out.' And when you do barely one of those, you're going to struggle. We're back to square one. We need to start over from the beginning.”
2006-12-26 08:46:33 · answer #4 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means going back to where you started
2006-12-26 08:00:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its square one and it means going back to where you started.
2006-12-26 05:18:31 · answer #6 · answered by yamahaqi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
basically returning to ur start point of watever u were doin, usually after so much work with no results..
2006-12-26 05:19:46 · answer #7 · answered by Funk-Ski Biznez Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
could it relate to a game such as snakes and ladders?
2006-12-26 05:18:40 · answer #8 · answered by ♠ Merlin ♠ 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means you cant spell
2006-12-26 05:19:56 · answer #9 · answered by xovenusxo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋