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turn the clock back on something
idiom(alsoturn back the clock on sth)
to act as if something in the past has not happened, or no longer exists:
Nobody would want to turn the clock back on anaesthesia, would they?
We must oppose the efforts to turn the clock back on civil rights.
These cuts threaten to turn back the clock on welfare reform.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Forgetting and forgetfulness
absent-minded
absent-mindedly
absent-mindedness
amnesia
amnesiac
anterograde
blot
bury
erase
featherbrained
forget
forget itidiom
forgetful
forgetfully
oblivion
remove
retrograde
retrograde amnesia
rustily
scatterbrained
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