Benjamin Dreyer, the former executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, is the author of “Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style.” “Without looking it up,” an ...
The expression has been around for some time, and when it was first used, it was ‘back at square one’. Nowadays, when we say that we are ‘back to square one’, what we mean is that we are back to where ...