Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “back to/at square one“ and its meaning is “to go back to the beginning (after making no progress); to start all over again; start over”.
Example Sentence: And now here we are yet again, back at home working, back at what feels uncomfortably like square one or, more and more, like an interminable game of Whac-A-Mole (a game in which players use a hammerlike tool to hit toy moles, which appear at random, back into their holes) in which, as soon as we are allowed to poke (project) our heads above ground, we get unceremoniously (abruptly) thumped (hammered) back inside.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Get used to it: working from home may be for life, not just for Christmas and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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