English-French translations for square one

• case départ
  Sans cela, nous nous retrouverons bientôt à la case départ. Failing that, we will soon be back to square one.
  L’histoire ne cesse de se répéter depuis la case départ. Things keep starting over and over again from square one.
  Retour à la case départ, le manque de respect envers les langues nationales demeurait. Back to square one, and disrespect for national languages remained.

Definition of square one

• the place where one begins; a lack of progress

Examples

• We discovered that our first idea would never work, so we were back to square one.

Related words

• square stone
• square someone off
• back to square one
• be back to square one
• be back at square one