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go/be back to square one
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(Definition of go/be back to square one from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a baptism of/by fire idiom
- a clean sheet/slate idiom
- advent noun
- beginning noun
- commencement noun
- initiation noun (START)
- institution noun (START)
- introduction noun (PUT INTO USE)
- jumping-off point noun
- kick-off noun
- onset noun
- opening noun (BEGINNING)
- salvo noun
- seed noun (BEGINNING)
- start noun (BEGINNING)
- starting time noun
- the outset noun
- the thin end of the wedge idiom
- trigger noun (START)
- zero hour noun
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