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.
A situation in which, one has to return to an earlier state due to certain drawbacks or failures
Due to technical errors in the project our team was back to square one.
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возвращается на круги своя
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