Turn The Clock Back Meaning & Sentence Examples

Turn The Clock Back Definition, Sentence Examples

TURN THE CLOCK BACK MEANING – Find out what turn the clock back really means. Example sentences of this idiomatic expression can also be found here.

The expression “turn the clock back” has its roots in the nineteenth century. It typically describes a vain attempt to go back in time and is synonymous with “turn back the hands of time.”

It was regrettably never possible. Erle Stanley Garner coined the phrase “You can’t turn back the hands of the clock,” referring to the impossibility of going back in time to make any changes, in his 1941 book “The Case of the Turning Tide.”

Turn The Clock Back Meaning:

• to make things back to how it was before.
• to return to a previous condition, usually, because the current one is undesirable.
• to go back in time.
• to revert to outdated concepts.

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Here are examples of sentences that use turn the clock back:

1. No one can turn back the clock
2. I wish I could turn the clock back and undo the wrong things I did.
3. They’re two people who’d love to turn the clocks back ten years.
4. I wish I could set the clock back to 2015 to meet my uncle.

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