square one

"It takes time to then get players out, get players in and then before you know it, that manager doesn't get the results and then they're gone and you're back to square one," said Rooney.

If we change the manager then we are just back to square one again.

Though he’s dubbed his latest trek across the country the Bean Without a Cause Tour, he’s also back to square one — a comic without new material, or at least not much of it.

“If we got shut down, we got shut down, back to square one,” Oganesyan said of the business plan.

In a decades-long game of transport snakes and ladders, Leeds was back at square one again.