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• turn the clock back — {v. phr.} To return to an earlier period. * /Mother wished she could turn the clock back to the days before the children grew up and left home./ * /Will repealing the minimum wage for workers under age eighteen turn the clock back to the abuses… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• turn the clock back — {v. phr.} To return to an earlier period. * /Mother wished she could turn the clock back to the days before the children grew up and left home./ * /Will repealing the minimum wage for workers under age eighteen turn the clock back to the abuses… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• put the clock back — put/turn the clock back to make things the same as they were at an earlier time. The court s decision has put the clock back a hundred years. Let s turn back the clock to 1963 and listen to the Beatles singing Love, love me do . (often + to) …   New idioms dictionary

• turn the clock back — put/turn the clock back to make things the same as they were at an earlier time. The court s decision has put the clock back a hundred years. Let s turn back the clock to 1963 and listen to the Beatles singing Love, love me do . (often + to) …   New idioms dictionary

• put the clock back — put back the clock or put the clock back 1. To return to earlier time and its conditions 2. To take a retrograde step • • • Main Entry: ↑clock …   Useful english dictionary

• turn\ the\ clock\ back — v. phr. To return to an earlier period. Mother wished she could turn the clock back to the days before the children grew up and left home. Will repealing the minimum wage for workers under age eighteen turn the clock back to the abuses of the… …   Словарь американских идиом

• turn the clock back — return to an earlier period The politician wanted to turn the clock back to an earlier time but of course everyone knew it was impossible …   Idioms and examples

• turn the clock back — go back to the hour which just passed; go back to the past …   English contemporary dictionary

• set the clock back — move the time on a clock backwards; relive past events …   English contemporary dictionary

• put the clock back —    fraudulently to alter the reading of a mileometer    Motor trade jargon; and see clock …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• put the clock back — verb To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time. Dont forget that this Sunday we put the clocks back an hour …   Wiktionary