VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Turn back the clock

Meaning:

figuratively to return in time to an earlier period of history.

Examples:

  • Turn back the clock 30 years.
  • That it was too late to turn back the clock.
  • Don't you wish you could just turn back the clock?
  • Yeah, I guess people will always try to turn back the clock.
  • For the rest of us, we can literally turn back the clock.
  • Mrs. Thackeray, you can't turn back the clock.
  • You probably want to just turn back the clock and start over.
  • And as much as you want to turn back the clock
  • We can't turn back the clock and play life over again.
  • For now, at least, we can't turn back the clock.