put back the clock

[put back the clock] or [turn back the clock] {v. phr.}

To go back in time; relive the past.

* /If I could put back the clock I'd give more thought to preparing for a career./

* /Richard wishes that he had lived in frontier days, but he can't turn back the clock./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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