status quo ante

conditions as they previously existed, things are they always have been

Status quo ante, Latin for, "the way things were before," incorporating the term status quo, may refer to:In law, the objective of a temporary restraining order or a rescission in which the situation is restored to "the state in which previously" it existedStatus quo ante bellum, meaning "the way things were before the war"Another name for the reset button technique, a technique in fiction writing
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status quo ante, conditions as they previously existed, things are they always have been