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go back to square one

/ˌɡoʊ ˌbæk tu ˌskwɛɹ ˈwʌn/

To start a task again from the beginning after failing.

“The experiment failed, so we had to go back to square one.”
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Illustration of go back to square one: To start a task again from the beginning after failing.