status quo ante
nounEtymology
From the Latin stātus quō ante (“the way things were before”), possibly from stātus quō ante bellum (“the way things were before the war”).
Definitions
The state of things as they were before
The state of things as they were before; a preexisting state of affairs.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for status quo ante. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA