TURN THE CLOCK BACK


Meaning of TURN THE CLOCK BACK in English

{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 last century?/

Dictionary of English idioms .      Словарь английских идиом.