<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up one step forward, two steps back in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Look up one step forward, two steps back in Wiktionary, the free dictionary . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Two steps forward one step back ..." is a catchphrase reflecting on an anecdote about a frog trying to climb out of a water well; for every two steps the frog climbs, it falls back by one step, making its progress arduous . </P> <P> The phrase is sometimes cynically rearranged to "One step forward, two steps back ..." to reflect a situation where, seemingly for every attempt to make progress in a task, an actual retrograde performance is achieved . The phrase One Step Forward, Two Steps Back was used as a title of a 1904 revolutionary pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin . </P>

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