English-Finnish translations for back to square one

• palata takaisin lähtöruutuun
• takaisin lähtöruutuun
  Silloin joudumme takaisin lähtöruutuun, kuten komission jäsen korosti, ja mielestäni tämän asian painottaminen on tärkeää. We should then be back to square one, as the Commissioner emphasised, and I think it important that we emphasise this.
  Tämä ei kuitenkaan tarkoita, että meidän olisi palattava takaisin lähtöruutuun. Tästä komissio on samaa mieltä esittelijän kanssa. This does not mean, however – and here the Commission agrees with the rapporteur – that we need to go back to square one.

Definition of back to square one

• Located back at the start, as after a dead-end or failure
• Back to the start, as after a dead-end or failure

Examples

• After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we are back to square one.
• After spending six hours on the intake we realized that there was nothing wrong with it, so we went back to square one.

Related words

• to have one's back to the wall
• go back to one's roots
• have one’s back to the wall
• have one's back to the wall
• to break somebody's back