origin of "back to square one" ?

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origin of "back to square one" ?

2007-02-01 20:26:12 · 2 answers · asked by growlybear 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations

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Prisoners used to try to escape prison by stacking boxes on top of each other until they could reach the wall and hop over. If a guard was coming or if they just werent good box-stackers, they had to move the blocks away, therefore then having to start from 'square one' all over again

2007-02-02 09:32:55 · answer #1 · answered by Ladeedah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

no one can be really sure, but this site lists some possibilities:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/back%20to%20square%20one.html

2007-02-01 20:36:21 · answer #2 · answered by blabla 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋