Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 5 January 2021

  • “It’s back to square one”

    “It’s back to square one”

    So headlined the Daily Mail this morning. Or as I heard on the radio; I didn’t actually read the paper. But it got me thinking where does that phrase come from. So I reached for my copy of the Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the 1993 edition when the World Wide Web was still…