Hi. I was listening to Olivia Rodrigo's "one step forward and three steps back" and I didn't really know what it means. So when I googled it, I realized what it meant but all the results show about ''one step forward and two steps back" and there are even some posts that said it can be used as '' two steps forward and one step back''. I understand the meanings but my question is which one is the original and can we just say as many steps as we like according to our situation? eg. I heard you're learning English. How's it going? I feel like it's one step forward and five steps back. ( Can we say like that?)