Meaning of BACK TO SQUARE ONE - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So sometimes you're working on something and
things go wrong and you have to start all
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over again.
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You need to start from the beginning.
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In English we say that you need to go back
to square one.
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So a good example of this would be if you've
ever built a house of cards.
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That's when you take a deck of playing cards
and you build a house out of them or a tower.
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And then if you make one wrong move and you
knock a card out anywhere in the house of
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cards the whole house of cards falls down.
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So we would in that case say you need to start
at square one, which means that you need to
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start all over again.
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Sometimes this happens in life too.
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Maybe you're working on a big project at work
and something goes really wrong we would say
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you have to start all over again.
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You have to start at square one.
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