2007-04-14 07:53:55 · 10 answers · asked by Unanswerable...or is it? 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
chalk and slate
2007-04-14 08:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by Elizabeth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One doesn't have to go far. The phrase is WWII era. The phrase originated as the caption to a cartoon produced by Peter Arno (Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr.), for the New Yorker magazine, in 1941. The cartoon shows various military men and ground crew racing toward a crashed plane, and a designer, with a roll of plans under his arm, walking away saying, "Well, back to the old drawing board".
'Back to square one' has no printed uses before 1952 so it is with no reliable origins. However it may be from the game hopscotch. One hops a pattern out 8 or 10 squares then back to square one.
So perhaps they 'Turned over a new leaf' or 'Started with a clean slate'
2007-04-14 20:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wooden mallet and Iron chisel
2007-04-17 13:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by EvelynMine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Square One.
2007-04-14 15:04:17 · answer #4 · answered by What the Deuce?! 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sketches in the dirt.
2007-04-14 23:26:56 · answer #5 · answered by charliecizarny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who knows, those little pads of paper.
2007-04-14 14:58:16 · answer #6 · answered by Dreamy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cave walls
2007-04-14 15:02:13 · answer #7 · answered by RcknRllr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the table
2007-04-14 23:11:49 · answer #8 · answered by a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the wall in their cave?
2007-04-15 10:02:24 · answer #9 · answered by crazycatlady4real 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...the basics...
2007-04-15 13:58:15 · answer #10 · answered by pat z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋