go back to square one

Fig. to return to the starting point. (Alludes to the squares of a board game.) It's back to square one. We have to start over. It looks like it's back to square one for you.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Rok	-	Slovene
Ladislava	-	Czech, Slovak
Odom	['əudəm]
Yulia	YOO-lee-yah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian
Joel	JOL (English), JO-əl (English), ho-EL (Spanish), zhoo-EL (Portuguese), YO-el (Swedish, Finnish)	English, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Biblical
Sokratis	-	Greek