is back to square one. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone says he

or she must go back to square one, it means that he or she has to completely

start all over again from the very beginning usually after a failure or

possibly hitting a dead end. Where you can't go any further and you have to

just throw the whole thing away and begin again. So you have to go right back

to square one. Okay. Let's continue here. There are three

different claims to the origin of this phrase. The first comes from the way

announcer's used to broadcast soccer and rugby games. They divided the field into

different squares. Okay, of rectangles to describe what part of the field the

action was taking place in. So remember this was like pre-TV. So they were

probably like announcing it on the radio, but you know people had to use their

imagination to know where in the field they were. So they were saying there in

square one. There in square five. There in square six or whatever and of course you

know I guess the idea is after the play is over. You begin a completely new play

again. It's back to square one. That's the idea. Okay. So yeah the idea would go back

to square one if a new play begins. Even though there is some question about this

one because some people say they don't think they started hearing about this

this phrase back to square one until like around the 1950s. It would have been, it

would have been some time after this. But still yet some people think this is

where it came from. Let's continue. The second theory is from

board games. You know there's a lot of board games like you know, checkers, chess,

Monopoly . Things like that. You know board games especially Snakes and Ladders. Well,

this one especially , because I think if you messed up , you had to start all over

again and you had to go back to square one. So this is another one where people

think that it came from this game. So that is the second one. The third one or the last

possible origin comes from the playground game

hopscotch which is still popular today. Sometimes you see the kids draw chalk on

the grounds and they jump in all these boxes which has a number of squares

children's jump through usually numbered from one to ten. And of course you know,

if they finish it at the end you got to go back to square one to start all over

again. So that's the idea. So there are three

possibilities of what people think that this phrase actually came from . It probably

could be any one of them. Okay. Let's continue. We got three examples here to

show how we use this phrase today. Let's look at the first one. It is said Thomas

Edison tried over 1,000 times with different substances to invent the light

bulb and I guess that means he failed 1000 times too So each time he failed, he

had to go back to square one to start all over again.

So that was something that remember Thomas Edison always pushed was his

persistence to just keep trying and trying and trying no matter how many

times you fail. All right. Let's look at number two here. The negotiations

completely fell apart. We will have to go back to square one to start them up

again. This is a very common way we might hear it. And the last one here. That

strong typhoon completely destroyed the outdoor project the students were

working on. They will have to go back to square one to rebuild it all over again.

Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.