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.